Mentoring

  • Join our wonderful community of SB Mentors by filling out an application today! We are currently making matches to begin in October 2023.

     

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    SB Mentoring is grateful for support and funding from MENTOR Vermont and is proud to be a member of the National Quality Mentoring System.

     
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       SB Mentoring Fall Celebration, October 2019                                                     SB Mentoring Spring Celebration, May 2019
     
     
      
    To read the SB Mentoring 2018-2019 Assessment Report, please click here.
    To read the SB Mentoring 2018-2019 Executive Summary, please click here.


    "A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself...to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view." ~ Oprah Winfrey

    SB Mentoring is our school-based mentoring program at Chamberlin, Orchard, Rick Marcotte Central, F.H. Tuttle Middle, and South Burlington High Schools in the South Burlington School District that matches caring, respectful adults in the community one-on-one with wonderful young people in grades K through 12 to help young people find their "sparks": their passions and interests. We value to research of the Search Institute on developmental assets and use that information as the foundation of the program: http://www.search-institute.org/research/developmental-assets.

    At its height, SB Mentoring grew to a vibrant community of 120 people: 60 young leaders and 60 mentors. Now in its 12th year, we are striving to regrow our program to similar stature following the effects of the pandemic. What remains fundamentally unchanged is the importance of the voices of our young leaders—the students in our program—that continue to play a vital role in steering the direction of SB Mentoring and the activities, community service projects, and field trips that we do.


    SB Mentoring believes that, in the words of one of our mentors, mentors "learn just as much –if not more—from our young leaders as they learn from us."

    For more information on the program or on how to become a mentor, please contact:

     

    Michelle Keefler, SB Mentoring Assistant Program Coordinator, at mkeefler@sbschools.net, 802.652.7035.

     

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