National Mentoring Month “Expand Your Universe: Mentor a Child”

January marks the eighth annual National Mentoring Month, a large-scale public service campaign held each year to recruit volunteer mentors to help young people achieve their full potential. The theme for National Mentoring Month 2009 is “Expand Your Universe: Mentor a Child.”

To help people learn more about mentoring and join in activities, the campaign’s chief sponsors—the Harvard Mentoring Project of the Harvard School of Public Health, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership, and the Corporation for National and Community Service—recently launched a new website. Visitors will find a variety of useful features, including:

1. Two new television PSAs, including one featuring National Mentoring Month spokesperson General Colin Powell nationalmentoringmonth.org/video/

2. Information on “Thank Your Mentor Day,” which takes place on January 22, and also includes a link to write a tribute to your mentor for posting on the website. nationalmentoringmonth.org/

3. A link to view and order a variety of free printed materials designed especially for National Mentoring Month 2009, including posters, thank-you notes, and bookmarks. nationalservicepubs.org

In addition, the site lists local partners, ideas for getting involved with mentoring this January, how to take action, a search option to find mentoring programs by zip code, a brief history of National Mentoring Month and news and events about activities nationwide.

We strongly encourage you to go to the site today, learn about National Mentoring Month, order your materials, and help find mentors for youth who need them.

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