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National Service Agency, Harvard and MENTOR
Kick Off 9th Annual Mentoring Month
President Obama calls on Americans to mentor and help guide the lives
of young people
Washington, DC – The Corporation for National and Community Service
joins with Harvard Mentoring Project of the Harvard School of Public
Health, and MENTOR to kick off the Ninth Annual National Mentoring
Month and launch a national volunteer recruitment drive to mentor.
General Colin Powell will headline the month-long initiative and more
than fifty partners will help to raise awareness of the impact of
mentoring on the lives of young people.
This year’s National Mentoring Month, themed Expand Your Universe,
Mentor a Child, focuses on developing ways to mobilize more community
volunteers to mentor a young person and increasing knowledge about how
mentoring can greatly enhance their prospects for leading a healthy
and productive life. Research shows that mentoring has beneficial and
long-term effects on youth by increasing their chances of high school
graduation and college attendance and decreasing the likelihood of
substance abuse and other risky behaviors.
In a proclamation recognizing the National Mentoring Month, President
Obama praised mentors as key to fulfilling “critical local needs that
often elude public services” and building a “brighter future for our
Nation by helping our children grow into productive, engaged, and
responsible adults.” Click here to read the complete proclamation.
The Corporation supports numerous mentoring projects across the
country that help young people transition from poverty to promise, and
aim to broaden the possibilities of success for thousands young people
through service. In fiscal 2009, the agency’s core programs leveraged
volunteers to mentor more than 89,000 children of prisoners, 94,000
youth from disadvantaged circumstances, and 248,000 children and youth
with special or exceptional needs. Other Corporation mentoring
programs match high school students with college-level mentors, work
to reduce the school dropout rate, and decrease youth violence.
“Our nation’s success depends on helping every child succeed in school
and reach his or her full potential in life,” said Nicola Goren, the
Corporation’s Acting CEO. “Mentoring strengthens our nation’s economic
and social well-being by influencing the life choices of young people
with the help of a caring adult.”
As a highlight of National Mentoring Month, on January 21, “Thank Your
Mentor Day,” Americans are asked to honor those who have impacted
their lives by thanking their mentors, passing on the virtue of
mentoring by becoming a mentor to a local young person, and writing a
tribute to their mentor and post it on www.WhoMentoredYou.org. To find
mentoring opportunities, visit www.serve.gov/mentor.
More than fifty national partners including nonprofits, mentoring
organizations, and governmental agencies will coordinate local
campaign activities across the country during National Mentoring Month
to promote the value of mentoring and help recruit volunteers. The
local lead partners include several of the Corporation’s grantees,
state and local affiliates of MENTOR, the Points of Light Institute
and HandsOn Network, America's Promise Alliance, Big Brothers Big
Sisters of America, Communities in Schools, and United Way of America.
The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency
that engages more than five million Americans in service each year
through its core programs, Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and
Serve America, and leads President Obama's national call to service
initiative, United We Serve. For more information about the
Corporation, visit NationalServe.gov.
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