Seeking Northern Ohio sites
Interested in adding mentoring to your after-school program?
Know of a group in your locale possibly interested in starting a mentoring program?
The Mentoring Center of Central Ohio has been awarded Stimulus grant money allowing us to provide organizations and groups in northern Ohio with
- Program guidance for the establishment of new or improvement of existing programs
- Mentor training
- Staff training
This training is FREE during the duration of the grant (until December 2010).
In order to increase the number of high-quality mentoring programs and the number of children served, the Mentoring Center is eager to connect with groups in varied locales in northern Ohio who could serve as a central training site and agree to invite varied other programs into their space for Mentoring Center training. (Follow-up support may include phone and/or e-mail.)
Research—and our own experience—has shown that embedding mentoring into after-school programs increases positive impacts, including in 21st Century grant sites. In some places, high school students can become mentors, allowing coaching and support of both sets of students.
If interested, or for information about whether your locale qualifies, please call Marilyn Pritchett, Director, or Kimeta Dover, Program Manager, Mentoring Center of Central Ohio at 614/839-2447 Ext.163 or 103, or e-mail us at mpritchett@mentoringcenterco.org or kdover@mentoringcenterco.org. See our website at www.mentoringcenterco.org.
The Mentoring Center, founded in 2000, is a hub of services for mentors and mentoring organizations. In central Ohio, we have 43 diverse partner agencies that collectively serve over 7,000 of the most vulnerable children in central Ohio. The center has trained over 16,000 mentors and mentees and provided training and technical support to scores of programs since our founding, primarily locally but also statewide.
The Mentoring Center is an independently operated, independently funded part of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio, supported by Franklin County Children Services, the Office of Criminal Justice Services, United Way, and the White Castle and Columbus Foundations. It is a member of MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership (mentoring.org). The center has worked with programs in Jackson, Fremont, and Stark counties and in Middletown, Cleveland, and Toledo (James Williams Center and Advancing Latino Academic Success), among others.
