Solano Mentor Collaborative

Recruits, trains and certifies mentors for at-risk-kids throughout Solano County.

• SMC was one of 20 programs across the nation to receive Recovery Act ARRA funding through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, (OJJDP). This has initiated expansions for SMC to strengthen local mentoring efforts. Two additional collaborative mentoring programs joining this year “Back Me” Bay Area Counseling & Mediation program and Youth Peace Initiative, Inc. Peace Jam Solano.
  
  
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• More than 37 tutors were trained to serve over 71 students with homework help. In addition to providing Community service and training for 6 local high school students, necessary for graduation.
• Monthly mixers averaged over ten mentor/ mentee matches per month. This includes our “Thanks For Giving” Mentor Mixer which had standing room only. Our “Cultural Mixer” extended opportunities to Jesse Bethel HS ASHEA program.
• The Basic Mentor Training recruits and trains volunteer mentors to provide mentors to support local mentor agencies. Nineteen agencies and 130 mentors trained in 2008-09.
• Ladies in Training (LIT) and Emerging Gentlemen (EG) are two middle school group mentoring programs that partner with SMC and FRC at Vallejo Middle school.  LIT expanded to Vallejo High School as a club run and staffed by volunteers and middle school graduates.