At the end of January, Benji, Chad and 11 mentoring program leaders from Vermont traveled to D.C. for the 10th annual National Mentoring Summit! Benji and Chad were joined by Gabriella Tufo Strouse (King Street Center), Erika Linskey (Safer Society Foundation), Marianne Hunkin (Watershed Mentoring) for Capitol Hill Day....
Burlington, VT—The Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) and MENTOR Vermont will receive a federal grant of $1.25 million over three years from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to provide mentoring services to youth living in rural Vermont communities affected by the opiate epidemic....
On January 22, MENTOR Vermont hosted nearly 200 youth mentees, volunteer mentors, and mentoring supporters from around the state for our annual Youth Mentoring Celebration at the Statehouse in Montpelier. This free event marked the culmination of National Mentoring Month festivities in Vermont, and featured: The signing of a...
Make a Donation to Support Youth Mentoring in Vermont! Dear Reader, Who were some of the mentors you had in your life? What caring adults helped you become the person you are today? When Jack moved to Plainfield, he was a quiet 3rd grader entering a K-12 one building...
The ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain hosted Community Science Night, an annual celebration for local youth mentoring pairs from the Chittenden County Mentoring Network (CCMN) on Thursday, March 21. More than 200 adult mentors and youth mentees from nine mentoring programs in Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle, and Addison...
This guest post, which was originally published in the Times Argus, is by Kasia Sosnow, who was recently named the 2019 Vermont Mentor of the Year by Comcast and MENTOR Vermont. Sosnow is a public school teacher and 10-year resident of Manchester, and has volunteered as a mentor with...
MENTOR Vermont, in partnership with five agencies that coordinate youth mentoring programs in the Upper Valley, recently launched a campaign to recruit new mentors in the region. MENTOR Vermont, The DREAM Program, Empower Up! Mentoring in Windsor Central, Everybody Wins! Vermont, The Mentoring Project of the Upper Valley, and...
Each year at the conclusion of National Mentoring Month, MENTOR convenes the National Mentoring Summit, which brings together more than 1,000 youth mentoring practitioners, advocates, researchers, philanthropic investors, and government and civic leaders for three days of advocacy and professional development. This year’s event continued the theme of “Building...
Having a caring, consistent adult mentor can play a crucial role in helping a young person succeed. Currently, one in three youth in Vermont enter adulthood without having a structured or informal adult mentor in their lives. Joanne, who mentors through Connecting Youth in the Champlain Valley School District,...
Dear Vermont youth mentoring friends and partners, We’re excited to inform you that Mobius has rebranded to MENTOR Vermont. While our name and logo have changed, our mission remains the same. We continue to focus on providing resources and support to youth mentoring programs in Vermont so they can...
