The mission of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) is to provide an organized framework that empowers and encourages adult volunteers to contribute their time, effort, ideas and advocacy toward creating life-changing solutions for children in educationally and economically disadvantaged areas.

This mission is accomplished through a four part strategy. 

1) Collect knowledge from key stakeholders about volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs: how programs succeed, where programs are located, and where more programs and resources are needed.

2) Aggressively share this knowledge through marketing and public awareness campaigns, capitalizing on the Internet as a chief vehicle of communication.

3) Facilitate understanding and collaboration among stakeholders to develop the long-term, integrated actions needed to help youths move from birth in poverty to a job or career by age 25.

4) Strengthen involvement of community and industry leaders to increase essential resources to tutor/mentor programs.

Many of our ideas are expressed in this Library of pdf essays, and in the animated presentations on this page. These are ideas that guide Cabrini Connections and are intended to help us get the consistent flow of resources needed to help the teens we work with. They are also ideas that can be used to help any other tutor/mentor program in the country do more to help the youth they work with.

In the United States, there are more than 13 million youth living in poverty who might benefit from this type of support system.

Review Tutor/Mentor Connection Concept Map (Strategy) to understand these goals in more detail.