North carolina mentoring program

Or are you a young person who wants to connect with a mentor? Search for a mentoring program in your community. It was an elementary school mentoring program in Rhode Island that first brought Elaine Belvin and Christina Markrush together.

Knowing that there is a connection between poverty and crime, that education is the only long term solution to moving people out of poverty, and that education does not come without relationships, we look at measurable goals tied to educational improvement. The goals are to support mentors in the goal of one full academic year, with a minimum of one-half year, in a mentor relationship with a child; to have a mentor relationship of intensity to meet best practice; to decrease discipline actions, juvenile justice involvement and gang affiliation; to increase attendance; and to improve academic performance.

Each of these are risk factors for drop-out. A student who remains engaged in school will have reduced negative behaviors. Mentoring has been identified as an effective way to reduce recidivism.

NC State Extension does not guarantee the accuracy of the translated text. The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Mentoring Program provides a professional, educational and personal support system for new Extension professionals through the assignment of a designated Mentor.

The Mentoring Program provides a formalized relationship where the new employee will:. New hires will be paired with a Mentor based several factors, including but not limited to subject matter, programmatic area and physical location.

Inspire others to mentor by telling us about how a mentor has impacted you or about your experience mentoring a young person. Be sure to share your mentoring moment on social media! Technical Assistance. Racial Equity. Racial Equity Youth in mentoring relationships are oftentimes told that anyone who works hard, studies, and makes good decisions will get ahead.

But for many youth of color, structural barriers based on race create unique life challenges that mentoring alone cannot account for, such as the following: Black preschool students are more likely to be suspended or kicked out of class for normal child behaviors like tantrums, hitting, or disobeying than are white children New Federal Report, March White Americans are more likely to violate drug laws than Black Americans, yet Blacks have been sent to prison on drug charges at a rate of times that of whites ACLU, A White job applicant with a criminal record is more likely to get called back than an equally qualified Black applicant without a criminal record Pager,