Mentor 2.0 Helps Busy Professionals Give Back to the Community
Are you looking for a meaningful way to give back to the community while utilizing your professional skills? Mentor 2.0 might be the right fit!
Mentor 2.0 is a partnership between Big Brothers Big Sisters and iMentorthat brings one-to-one college-success mentoring to Joliet Township High School District 204 students.
The program facilitates mentoring relationships that ensure more students from low-income communities enroll in college and graduate with a degree. By partnering with high schools and matching every student in a cohort with a mentor and it leverages the community to reimagine how public high schools support students through the college process.
Typically, schools employ a single college counselor who is responsible for supporting all students. With Mentor 2.0, every student in the cohort has a college graduate who works with them each week of their high school career. This provides our students with the level of personalized support necessary to ensure true college-readiness.
• Mentor-mentee pairs build their relationships throughweekly email communication and monthly in-person meetings.
• The curriculum structures each weekly email exchange and monthly in-person meeting. The curriculum creates a baseline of conversations and experiences for all pairs.
• A full-time Big Brothers Big Sisters’ staff member is responsible for the success of each relationship.
• Mentors and mentees use iMentor’s custom technology platform to build their relationship. Staff utilizes the platform to launch, manage, monitor, and evaluate the program.
For much more information or to volunteer visti: https://bbbswillgrundy.org/mentor2-0/
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