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Mentoring News and Events

MENTOR has launched the Mentoring Children of Prisoners: Caregiver's Choice. Caregiver's Choice is a nationwide program designed to bring mentoring programs and children with incarcerated parents together, and to financially support the resulting mentoring relationships. To join Caregiver's Choice, mentoring programs must complete an online application and provide information about their program's model, practices, and capacity. The application is now available at www.mentoring.org/caregiverschoice.

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Congratulations to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma and to Volunteers of America for being named recipients of the 2007 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Mentoring Children of Prisoners grant.

A total of $22 million was awarded to 144 grant recipients in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Grant sizes ranged from $20,000 to $1 million per year for three years, with the bulk of the grant amounts between $100,000 and $200,000 per year for three years. To view the complete list of grantees, please visit http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/content/docs/07_grantawards.htm
and scroll down to the header "YOUTH SERVICES DIVISION - Mentoring Children of Prisoners Program."

For more information on the Mentoring Children of Prisoners Grant visit http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/Modification_to_CV0029.html.

Books, Reports and Articles

Mentoring a Movement: My Personal Journey by Mentor Consulting Group's Dr. Susan Weinberger follows the author through her many years of working with the mentoring community.

School-Based Mentoring: A Closer Look by Carla Herrera analyzes a study of three Big Brothers/Big Sisters school-based mentoring programs.

Mentoring USA Enhances Self-Esteem Development for Immigrant Youth by Matilda Cuomo & Preeti Parasharami examines the partnership between Mentoring USA and the New York City Public Schools to offer an English as a second language mentoring program.

These mentoring resources are provided as a service of the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, and links to other mentoring programs and resources do not necessarily represent the policies and positions of the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence.