Wednesday, November 14, 2007

A Campaign for Mentoring: Leading Practices in Program Management

Join regional leaders in the mentoring movement as they come together for a conference entitled: "A Campaign for Mentoring: Leading Practices in Program Development." Whether you are an experienced mentor services provider or new to the mentoring field this exciting conference will provide useful resources and training in the areas of energizing and retaining mentors, mentor training, cultural competency issues for mentors, how to start a mentoring program, and more. Keynote speaker Joellen Gonder-Spacek, a national leader in the mentoring field, will provide an overview of recent mentoring developments in the United States and she will focus on the social return on investment of youth mentoring programs. The half day conference, which will also be the kickoff for a regional mentoring campaign, will be held on Friday, December 14 at the Trefoil Oaks Conference Center in Racine, WI. For more information or to register go to http://www.uwp.edu/departments/community.partnerships/CBREMentoringConf.cfm or contact Felicia Stallworth at felicia.stallworth@uwp.edu or (262) 595-2312.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Mentor Kenosha-Racine Update

Greetings!
It has been a busy week in the life of Mentor Kenosha-Racine. I am sure everyone is eagerly awaiting the finalization of the Mentor Kenosha-Racine website, I certainly am! I will post a link for everyone to view as soon as the site is completed (by the end of this week).
Remember those mentoring program criteria we poured over for hours? Well, you can now preview the survey I created:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=afuEWV4SRR31IdJ0WIlQxA_3d_3d
This link will be sent in an email as well.