Our Mission:
The Indiana Mentoring Partnership promotes and supports quality mentoring to foster academic success and positive youth development. It is our vision that no youth shall wait for a caring and involved mentor. The Partnership seeks to accomplish this by: increasing public awareness of the need and benefits of youth mentoring, expanding community collaborations and investments in mentoring and by providing technical assistance and trainings.
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The Indiana Mentoring Partnership is a program of the Indiana Youth Institute
that promotes and supports quality mentoring to foster positive youth development and
academic success.
It is our vision that no Indiana youth shall be denied the inspiration of a quality mentor.
We seek to accomplish this vision through strategies that are simple, yet critical:
- Expanding public involvement by increasing public awareness of the need and benefits of youth mentoring,
- Facilitating community collaborations and investments in mentoring and,
- Providing responsive and effective technical assistance and trainings.
WHY THE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP?
- Research and experience have shown that people who succeed have had at least one significant adult who cared about them. In many cases the adult was a family member. However, with the breakdown of family structures we need to find other ways to get caring adults in the lives of children.
- Mentoring is a proven, cost efficient and effective method of helping young people, particularly those at-risk.
- In a research independent survey, the 93% of the mentoring programs in the state of Indiana responded that the work of the Indiana Mentoring Partnership is needed.
- The Mentoring Partnership is an affiliate of the MENTOR/ National Mentoring Partnership, collaborating with 30 State and local offices to share experiences, resources and expertise to further the initiative of quality mentoring.
Download the brochure for the Indiana Mentoring Partnership.