Celebrating National Mentoring Month with the Pittsburgh Steelers
We partnered with the Pittsburgh Steelers to shine a spotlight on mentoring this month. Check out some of your favorite players as they share stories about how mentoring has impacted their lives.
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January is National Mentoring Month
This year marks the 11th anniversary of National Mentoring Month and "Thank Your Mentor Day," which is Thursday, January 26th. Help us celebrate by thanking your mentor. Interested in getting involved with a local program? Contact us and we'll help you get started!
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Our Mission
The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern PA’s mission is to maximize the opportunity for mentoring to transform the lives of young people so they may reach their full potential.
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Mentoring 101
One of the most important first steps to ensure your success as a volunteer mentor is adequate preparation and training. Mentoring 101 is a training is designed to give you all the information and tools you will need to become a great mentor. You will learn about the different stages of a mentoring relationship, how to communicate effectively with your mentee and how your mentee's self-esteem can impact the relationship overall.
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Holy Family Social Services
In the rich tradition of Catholic social teaching and rooted in the heritage of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, the Holy Family Institute empowers children, families and volunteers to lead responsible lives and develop healthy relationships built on faith, hope, and love...
Mission Discovery
Mission Discovery is an intensive year-round exploration program for middle school students and their families that provides academic enrichment in math, science, technology and the arts. Students work daily with educators from the four Carnegie Museums at the Hill House after school. Parents are expected to volunteer at least four hours per month...
Amachi Pittsburgh
America's most isolated and at-risk children are the estimated 7.3 million children who have one or both parents under some form of state or federal supervision. Without effective intervention, research shows that 70 percent of these children will likely follow their parent's path into jail or prison. The Amachi mentoring program was developed to provide them with a different path - by establishing the consistent presence of loving, caring volunteers of faith...
Gwen's Girls
Gwen's Girls is a non-profit agency created to meet the needs of girls, ages 8 to 18, in a holistic, comprehensive manner with a strengths-based approach - working from a positive perspective, our volunteers help to build on each girl's personal strengths and provide opportunities and experiences for each girl to be successful...
MGR Foundation/Murals Program
Murals is a program that uses music, art, drama, and dance to help students to deal with the issue of violence in their lives. As a component to our program, the MGR Foundation uses college "artistic mentors" as volunteers to help guide the students through the artistic process, build relationships, and offer their insight and experience relating to violence...
CareBreak at the Watson Institute
CareBreak is a gift of time and energy given for a few hours a week by a committed volunteer to a family caring for a child with special needs. CareBreak provides an opportunity for children and volunteers to become close through fulfilling, one-on-one experiences, while allowing the family to regroup. Typically, volunteers provide CareBreak in the family's home...
Mt. Ararat
This project focuses on matching volunteers with boys in the 6th -8th grade attending Faison Intermediate, Lincoln Intermediate and Sterrett Schools...
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh
For 42 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh (BBBS) has been recognized as the largest mentoring agency in the region. Their programs enlist volunteers who work to deter the occurrence of problematic behaviors in children before they take root. Through guidance and friendship their volunteer mentors fill a void for children who are critically in need of stable and supportive bonds with caring adults...
Strong Women, Strong Girls
Strong Women, Strong Girls raises the aspirations and self-esteem of elementary school girls by matching them with volunteering college women as their mentors, exposing them to strong women in history through an innovative after school curriculum, taking them on enriching field trips to college campuses, and providing opportunities for leadership development through a service learning curriculum...
PA eMentoring at Smart Futures
PA eMentoring is looking for working and retired adults, parents, and mature college students to serve as volunteer online college and career mentors for high school students -- helping them plan and prepare for college and career success. The program navigates volunteers and their mentees through a 10 step career education curriculum that helps the mentor create and share their own personal career story and leads to a college and career plan for the mentee...
Hear Me
An initiative of the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, Hear Me is a collaborative network of community organizations, institutions, businesses and foundations working together to provide a better future for our kids. Hear Me is a conduit for our kids voices that promotes the purposeful and responsible use of media by and for kids that can stimulate change in their lives, their communities, and the world