I was mentored from my 3rd grade year to my 7th grade year by three amazing ladies who were very generous with their time and efforts to help me as a young kid get through a tough situation.
I have been with the mentoring network since second grade I've had the same mentor all these years. I'm a junior in high school and I recently move but my mentor still comes and gets me on Wednesday and we go get coffee/water and talk. The mentoring network has been great for me. I am glad I have the mentor I do because when I need advice she has it, and if my family is going through a rough time she helps us through it. I see how many kids just like me have been helped by the mentoring network and it's amazing. Through the activities we all participate in I have met so many great people. Without this network that wouldn't have happened. When I graduate and get my life together I would very much like to be a mentor to a young kid just like me. I wanna make a difference in the world and this group has made a huge difference
I am a mentee with the mentoring network. This nonprofit organization has helped not only me but many other kids and students. They help us succeed in school, help us with any problems we have, and most of all, they encourage us to do our absolute best in everything from school work to jobs. They encourage us to find what makes us happy and they help us build on it. Not only are they helping but they are changing lives.
This network has done wonders for the community it works in. All about building relationships and bringing back the communication lost by technology. I myself have been a menti for this network since I was in thrid grade, now graduated. Its has had a huge impact on my life and the way I move forward.
I have had numerous positive experiences with the Mentoring Network and its employees. They do an excellent job of training mentors, keeping mentors motivated, and communicating with the schools. Its is fun watching students flourish emotionally, academically, and socially because of the strong bond they share with a mentor. I look forward to continue working with the Mentoring Network in my school.
I am a principal in an elementary school where several mentors are assigned. We have a number of students with high levels of trauma and chaos in their lives. I have seen an amazing impact when a mentor steps into the life of a student. They meet once a week with the student and provide a positive and stable role model. The mentors are of the highest professional quality and they continue to follow the student, even though the student and their family may bounce from school to school. I know some mentors who have followed their kids all the way up through high school.
Last year one of our students lost their mom. Her mentor, who had only been assigned a couple weeks earlier, stepped in and helped the extended family with the funeral. She even shared from her heart during the service. Wow! These mentors really impact lives.
Our school has been gifted with mentors from The Mentoring Network.....what amazing opportunities they have given to our students . I have seen so many positive results because of the mentoring and relationships developed over the years. I wish more people would become mentors so we could affect more students!!
I am the principal in a school that is a regular recipient of mentors from the Mentoring Network. The Network was worked with us to help match mentors with students for long term effects and relationships. Most importantly are the positive changes we seen our mentored students. Socially awkward students have started making friends, academics have improved and classroom behaviors have become more appropriate. While we looked for other variables that would have prompted such changes, we continually came back to the addition of a the mentor. I thank you, my teachers thank you and my students thank you.
My son Mark is an Asperger Syndrome child, he was so lonely and bullied in grade school, he just never fit in. He was enrolled in the mentoring program in 6th grade and it literally changed his life. His friendship with Donna gave him self-confidence and gave him the introduction to social skills that we as parents were unable to do. Coming from Donna things made more sense to him, he didn't battle her the way he did with us, and accepted her advice as help not criticism. He graduated from High School this year and I am so proud of the young man he has become, I sincerely believe without the mentoring programs guidance and encouragement he wouldn't be where he is today. The program involved him in social functions, fun events, and learning programs that got him out of his comfort zone and into the adventure of the real world with others. We are so grateful for everything the program does for the kids in need in our community!!