Child mentorship programs are activities that prove to be beneficial not only for children but also for the adults who mentor them. The program aims for both to learn from one another in terms of life skills, values and character development. A mentorship program pairs adult mentors with young people in order to offer support, advice, friendship, reinforcement and lead through constructive examples in order to help young people achieve their full potential, succeed in life and contribute to the betterment of society. Child mentorship programs are in place nationwide and locally, in communities all over the world. Below are examples of established mentorship programs in the United States:
MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership-is a federally funded mentorship support program for mentoring partnerships throughout the United States. The program helps build much-needed infrastructure at the state level to help mentorship centrals. It also leverages leadership and knowledge through the National Mentoring Institute.
America’s Promise, The Alliance for Youth-Founded in 1997 with General Colin Powell as Chairman and chaired today by Alma Powell, America’s Promise Alliance is a cross-sector partnership of more than 300 corporations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations and advocacy groups that are passionate about improving lives and changing outcomes for children. Their work aims to raise awareness, encouraging action and engaging in advocacy to provide children the key supports called the Five Promises: Caring adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, An Effective Education and Opportunities to Help Others.
Big Brothers and Sisters in America-Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States. They have dominated in one-to-one youth service for more than a century, developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of young people.
Marketing and promotion of these mentorship programs present challenges given limited funds and busy lives of a community. Given this situation, the use of small print materials can be simple but effective means to spread awareness. Print materials today can easily be printed using online printing services. Some online printers such as Uprinting for example, can also be found in web resources such as Wikipedia and Yelp.
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Starting a youth center?I have some basic ideas on starting a youth center but I wanted to see if there was anyone out there who had actually started one on their own. I want to be able to guide and mentor the youth in my city. I plan on having tons of programs that cater to the inner city youth. Tutoring, time management, money management, parenting classes and things along those lines. If anyone has any positive suggestions please let me know. I've googled just about everything. I'm trying to get "The Chill Spot" up and running by Spring 2010
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I've volunteered with several youth programs, and I've had some pretty positive experiences with all of them. I currently work with several programs. I am an active "Big" in the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization:
http://www.bbbs.org
I'm on my second match, and it's been a lot of fun. Even though at times you may not realize the impact that you are making, it's all of the little moments that make it worthwhile.
I also volunteer through my volunteer center to tutor children at the library and work at the local children's shelter. I've found the most variety through the volunteer center:
http://www.handsonnetwork.org/our-network/
http://www.pointsoflight.org/c.....center.cfm
http://national.unitedway.org
It all depends on the type of time commitment, and what you are looking for in a program. If you are looking for a one-on-one match, then I would suggest that Big Brothers is a very good program. If you are looking for general mentoring opportunities, I think your volunteer center may be able to help you find stuff that will have a shorter time frame to get started. In both cases with Big Brothers, it did take quite a bit of time before I was matched, and a longer time in order to build a relationship with my match.
Good luck!
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You won't get rich but there are lots of jobs available.
It's stressful though — there is high turnover because of the hours vs. the amount of pay.
You can be a mentor without it being your job — lots of kids need mentors.
(At first I thought you were talking about being a youth pastor)
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Get involved with area schools, churches, youth groups, sports leagues and scout groups. Write to their community service coordinators (or whoever would best fit this description) and ask to be put on a list of organizations looking for help.
In particular, find out who in your community encourages or requires community service. Ask kids to run small grade-level or school/church/team wide drive for the items you're looking for. Do it in advance so you can bank the bulk of the items for the coming year and fill in as necessary. 5 kids with 20 friends each bringing 1 school item equals 10 filled backpacks. Get a whole school involved and you may be able to cover your program for the year and attract new donations.
Also consider getting volunteers involved in more direct ways. People who are invested in a program are more likely to support it financially.
I run a small non-profit and I've been spreading the word about our program to supply gently used sports uniforms and footwear to kids in rural Mexico. I was just contacted by a family whose 4th grader is interested in running a drive at his school as part of a run for class office. Apparently it's a tradition at his school to prove one's leadership through such a project. I know he won't be able to supply a very large part of what we need, but every little bit helps and the publicity we'll get out of it will be very valuable. We'll run a thank-you in the newspaper, put his face on our website and benefit from the word-of-mouth publicity at his school.
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“what are you doing”….”ughhh i’ll tell u when u get older”…LOL
Big Brothers/Big Sisters is a great mentoring program.
I would start by going to a city hall meeting for the city that you're interested in and see how they operate. After the meeting, talk to the Chair of the commission and see if he or she may be interested in such a program. Then ask them how you can put discussion of this on the next meeting's agenda. You will likely have to give a short presentation of the program and answer questions by council members and other citizens that come to the meetings. It will help if you can get the support of teachers in local schools and make sure that they show up at the meeting to support you.
Hope that helps!
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You are going to need help to do it. TV stations won't run commercials that don't meet their standards. Hunt down local TV production students or even public-access TV afficionados.
I make my own infomercials for the internet… but making commericals for TV is a different game altogether.,
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i would say to talk with a salvation army family shelter director.