| The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota's mission is to connect more youth with quality mentoring and economic self-sufficiency experiences.
Mentoring Children of Prisoners: Caregiver's Choice MENTOR announced the launch of a nationwide voucher program providing children of incarcerated parents with expanded access to mentoring services. To view the announcement, which includes links to enrollment criteria and information, click here.
Summer Institute 0n Youth Mentoring - Portland State University presents the 2008 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring July 28 – August 1. The Summer Institute offers an intensive week-long seminar presenting the latest developments in theory and research for experienced mentoring professionals. The sessions are led by prominent, nationally recognized research fellows, including Jean Grossman, Michael Karcher, Laurie Powers, and Bernadette Sanchez.
Space is limited to 25 participants and applications are due May 12, 2008. To find out more about the Summer Institute, click here.
Art Heals on Hennepin - April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and to create awareness, children from domestic abuse shelters and treatment centers worked with Free Arts Minnesota volunteer mentors on 19 large Metro Murals on exhibit at rotating bus shelter displays until May 1st along Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. During a kickoff presentation in support of their work healing kids through art and mentoring, Mayor R.T. Rybak asked one of the artists to read a document that declared April 1st as Free Arts Minnesota Day. View the Image Gallery: Free Arts Metro Murals
Kids ‘n Kinship Award Winner -Kids 'n Kinship of Apple Valley is proud to announce that long-time mentor Mike Zenner has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the Hands On Twin Cities Be the Change Award. In front of friends and family, Mike received the award at the Mall of America Volunteer Expo on February 23rd. To find out more, visit the Kids ‘n Kinship website.
Training Schedule! Check out our schedule of community workshops. Includes new workshops on Cultural Intelligence for Mentors and Tools for Mentoring Adolescents. Also back is Maximize Your Impact mentor training, Training Quality Mentors (train-the-trainer workshop) and Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring series.
U.S. Congress Support for Mentoring Representative Betty McCollum (D-MN), co-chair of the Congressional Mentoring Caucus, recently spoke on the floor of the U.S. House in support of National Mentor Month on 1/23/08 . Read Rep. McCollum’s remarks and the press release.
The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Mentoring Relationships If you missed Dr. Bernadette Sanchez’s compelling presentation about research on the effect of gender, age, culture and ethnicity as influences in the dynamics of the mentoring relationship at the University of Minnesota, visit Inquiry to Impact to download her PowerPoint presentation and handouts. Explore the role of culture in mentoring relationships further by registering for a new MPM workshop - Cultural Intelligence for Mentors.
National Mentor Month! Click here for details of the 2008 campaign. Events in Minnesota included a kick off event on January 5th with Jamie Hyneman and Grant Imahara, from the popular MythBusters show on the Discovery Channel.
| 
