Tutor/Mentor Connection
The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) is dedicated to improving the availability and quality of tutor/mentor programs in high-poverty areas of Chicago and other large US cities through an ongoing, dynamic exchange of ideas.
Mission
The mission of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) is to provide an organized framework that empowers and encourages adult volunteers to contribute their time, effort, ideas and advocacy toward creating life-changing solutions for children in educationally and economically disadvantaged areas.
This mission is accomplished through a four-part strategy.
- Collect knowledge from key stakeholders about volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs: how programs succeed, where programs are located and where more programs and resources are needed.
- Aggressively share this knowledge through marketing and public awareness campaigns, capitalizing on the Internet as a chief vehicle of communication.
- Strengthen involvement of community and industry leaders to increase essential resources to tutor/mentor programs.
- Facilitate understanding
and collaboration among stakeholders to
develop the long-term, integrated actions needed to help youths move
from birth in poverty to a job or career by age 25.
The Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference is an important part of the T/MC strategy. It draws people together and creates public awareness of the need for tutor/mentor programs and the actions that business, healthcare, media, faith and political leaders must take to create more and better programs in every high-poverty neighborhood of big cities like Chicago.
