Tutor/Mentor Connection:
The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) is dedicated to improving the availability and quality of tutor/mentor programs in high-poverty areas of Chicago and other large US cities through an ongoing, dynamic exchange of ideas.
Mission:
The mission of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) is to provide an organized framework that empowers and encourages adult volunteers to contribute their time, effort, ideas and advocacy toward creating life-changing solutions for children in educationally and economically disadvantaged areas.
This mission is accomplished through a four-part strategy.
- Collect knowledge from key stakeholders about volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs: how programs succeed, where programs are located, and where more programs and resources are needed.
- Aggressively share this knowledge through marketing and public awareness campaigns, capitalizing on the Internet as a chief vehicle of communication.
- Strengthen involvement of community and industry leaders to increase essential resources to tutor/mentor programs.
- Facilitate understanding
and collaboration among stakeholders to
develop the long-term, integrated actions needed to help youth move
from birth in poverty to a job or career by age 25.
Many of our ideas are expressed in this Library of pdf essays, and in the animated presentations on this page. These are ideas that guide Cabrini Connections and are intended to help us get the consistent flow of resources needed to help the teens we work with. They are also ideas that can be used to help any other tutor/mentor program in the country do more to help the youth they work with.
The Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference is an important part of the T/MC strategy. It draws people together and creates public awareness of the need for tutor/mentor programs and the actions that business, healthcare, media, faith and political leaders must take to create more and better programs in every high-poverty neighborhood of big cities like Chicago.
