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| | Bridge Builders for Kids
Bridge Builders for Kids is a Christian mentoring organization whose vision is to end second-generational incarceration by connecting children of prisoners and their families to a loving network that will encourage and inspire them to achieve their God-given potential. Bridge Builders for Kids equips adult mentors with the training and support they need to be a positive, stable and meaningful friend. By allowing a child to be a part of your everyday activities, life skills are learned and life-enhancing friendships are built. |
| | Children's Home Society & Family Services - M & M Mentor
Adopted adults are needed to mentor adopted youth, with the hopes of creating a unique relationship in order to build youth self-esteem and affirm their cultural heritage through positive role modeling
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| | Communities Connecting Collaborative
"Special Friends" mentoring program in school High School students mentor youth in grades K-3 in need of a friend, a tutor etc. |
| | Elk River Area School District
This is a student to student school-based mentoring program designed as a class which can be taken by mentors for class credit. The Mentors go through a four-week training course in order to develop necessary mentoring skills. They are then matched with students from the local jr. high and elementary schools whom they will mentor for the entire school year. Mentors receive on-going training and support throughout the school year.
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| | Girl Scout Council of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys
Girl Scouts is a dynamic and contemporary organization that prepares girls to seek and meet the challenges of our ever changing society. Through an informal, educational program, girls discover, connect and take action.Girl Scouts build girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. Girls can join at any time during the year by becoming an individual member, joining a troop, a special interest group, or attending summer camp. |
| | Lincoln International High School
Serves refugee and immigrant students in need of English language skills and knowledge in basic school subjects. The tutor/mentor program connects students with caring community volunteers to help aid their learning and develop positive relationships and community connections with people from the greater community. |
| | Page Education Foundation
Adults mentors are partnered with college students of color. They encourage the students in a service project with K-8th grade children, which is required in exchange for their college scholarship. Adult mentors also encourage the college students in their own studies. |
| | Salvation Army, The, Project Break-Through
Project Break-Through is a unique, family-centered mentoring program which works to improve the self-sufficiency of the participant families it serves. The program matches families trying to break out of the poverty cycle with volunteers who are willing to support a family in their self-suffiiciency goals. Teams of mentors are assigned to each participant family, which provides the family with multiple friends, role models and connections to the community, while providing volunteers with the opportunity to impact a family. Common self-sufficiency goals include job, home and transportation searching; budgeting; enhancing parenting skills; developing study habits; and strengthening boundaries and relationships. |
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