Created by the Harvard School of Public Health and MENTOR, National Mentoring Month (NMM) celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2011. By focusing national attention on the need for mentors, as well as how each of us—individuals, businesses, government agencies, schools, faith communities and nonprofits—can work together to increase the number of mentors, we assure brighter futures for our young people. National Mentoring Month celebrates mentoring and the positive effect it can have on young lives. Its goals are to: - Raise awareness of mentoring in its various forms.
- Recruit individuals to mentor, especially in programs that have waiting lists of young people.
- Promote the rapid growth of mentoring by recruiting organizations to engage their constituents in mentoring.
Visit the Chicago Program Links section and view the web sites of youth organizations operating in different parts of Chicago Use the Interactive Map on the Tutor/Mentor Program Locator to see where tutor/mentor programs are located in Chicago. Use this map to see the availability of different types of tutoring and/or mentoring programs and different age groups served. Visit the Tutor/Mentor Institute and read articles showing how business, faith groups, hospitals and universities can become strategic supporters of volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in different parts of the Chicago region. If everyone makes a January resolution to get more informed, and more involved, more youth in the Chicago region will connect with mentors in well-organized tutor/mentor programs and the number of youth and volunteers involved with grow from year to year. |