Connecting Youth Mentoring
Connecting Youth Mentoring
Be someone who matters to someone who matters.
Be someone who matters to someone who matters.
CY Mentoring is one of the largest mentoring programs in Vermont, serving more than 160 5th-12th graders across Champlain Valley School District. School-based programs support our middle school mentor/mentee pairs while community-based programs support our high school pairs. Learn more about mentoring's impact below.
CY Mentoring is one of the largest mentoring programs in Vermont, serving more than 160 5th-12th graders across Champlain Valley School District. School-based programs support our middle school mentor/mentee pairs while community-based programs support our high school pairs. Learn more about mentoring's impact below.
WHY MENTOR?
WHY MENTOR?
Research confirms that quality mentoring relationships have powerful, positive effects on young people in a variety of personal, academic, and professional situations. Ultimately, mentoring connects a young person to personal growth and development, and social and economic opportunity. ~Source:MENTOR National
Research confirms that quality mentoring relationships have powerful, positive effects on young people in a variety of personal, academic, and professional situations. Ultimately, mentoring connects a young person to personal growth and development, and social and economic opportunity. ~Source:MENTOR National
WHO ARE MENTORS?
WHO ARE MENTORS?
Mentors are fun, caring, trustworthy adults who provide a consistent presence in a young person’s life. By sharing just one hour a week, a mentor can help a young person enhance their self-confidence, improve academic performance, prevent substance abuse, and explore [new] interests and passions while enriching their own life.
Mentors are fun, caring, trustworthy adults who provide a consistent presence in a young person’s life. By sharing just one hour a week, a mentor can help a young person enhance their self-confidence, improve academic performance, prevent substance abuse, and explore [new] interests and passions while enriching their own life.
Our Programs
Our Programs
Community-Based Mentoring
Community-Based Mentoring
CVU high school students are matched with caring and committed volunteers to spend meaningful quality time together in the community. Mentor pairs meet after school or on weekends to work on projects, explore interests and experience new places all the while building trusting and dependable relationships.
School-Based Mentoring
School-Based Mentoring
Our school-based program is offered to CVSD middle school students - grades 5th-8th. They're matched with trustworthy and respectful volunteers who spend one hour a week, during the school day. Each school has a dedicated mentor space for pairs to explore projects and activities like cooking, crafting, games, sports or just easeful conversation.
CVSD Mentoring Coordinators
CVSD Mentoring Coordinators
