Help MENTOR Independence Region scale high quality mentoring!
Quality is Critical
High quality mentors help youth to transform their lives, blazing the path to successful adulthood and making powerful contributions to their communities. Yet poor quality mentoring can leave youth worse off than never having a mentoring at all.
- Support Awareness: The cost of five printed, bound copy of the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring, codifying evidence-based practices of a high quality mentoring program $25
- Support Safety: The cost of an FBI Fingerprint Background check to help ensure Volunteers are safe adults $50
- Support Connection: The cost of leveraging the Mentoring Connector to connect more Volunteers and Families to high quality mentoring programs $100
- Support Development: The cost of training 35 mentors on Developmental Mentoring Practices $500