2012 National Mentoring Month
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Created by the Harvard School of Public Health and MENTOR, National Mentoring Month (NMM) celebrates its 11th anniversary January 2012 in collaboration with the Corporation for National & Community Service. NMM celebrates mentoring and the positive effect it can have on the lives of young people.
The goals are to:
- Raise awareness of mentoring in its various forms
- Recruit individuals to mentor
- Promote mentoring by recruiting organizations to engage their constituents in mentoring
2012 National Mentoring Summit
The second annual National Mentoring Summit was held on January 24th and 25th in Washington, DC. Sponsored by MENTOR, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the Harvard School of Public Health, the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and United Way Worldwide, the summit will bring together major youth mentoring organizations, along with government, civic, research and corporate leaders, to evaluate best practices, review new research, chart the field’s future and fundamentally ensure that more youth receive quality mentoring.
The theme for the 2012 National Mentoring Summit was Invest in the Future: Mentor a Child, which captures the long-term benefits for young people, their mentors and their communities that an investment in quality mentoring can offer.
Workshop presentations, speaker biographies and additional content from the Summit are now posted online at www.mentoring.org/summit2012.
TCAM at the National Mentoring Summit
TCAM presented the session Using Research to Make Promising Practices Better at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 25th. Other OJJDP mentoring grantees presenting at the Summit include Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (10:00 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. January 24; 9:00 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. January 25), Friends for Youth (3:00 p.m. January 24), and Goodwill Industries International (10:00 a.m. January 24). Boys and Girls Club of America and Concerned Black Men are both partners of the Summit and United Way, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and OJJDP are sponsors.
Click here to download TCAM's presentation.
