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Mentoring

 

 

 

Connecting an adult with a youth in a Tutor/Mentor program is the BEGINNING of a tutor/mentor program’s work, not the OUTCOME.

The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) seeks to build a community of adults and organizations that are dedicated to reaching youth living in poverty and to building a sophisticated, long-term support system that leads them to careers.

This web site is dedicated to building the capacity of Cabrini Connections to use GIS computer technology to guide volunteers, donors and business partners to tutor/mentor locations around Chicago. At these locations these reinforcements can do battle against poverty, poor schools, poor community support systems and become advocates and mentors to help at-risk youth t o careers. The maps shown on this site are intended to help business leaders, philanthropy leaders, volunteers, faith leaders, media and politicians focus on-going attention and resources on locations where more help is needed on a consistent basis to solve problems.

With a map we show that problems are spread over a wide area of the Chicago region, not just one or two neighborhoods, such as Cabrini Green, which are regularly reported in the media as locations of poverty, gang violence, drugs and poor schools. With a map and a chart we can also show that solutions need to be distributed at many locations, not just a few high profile brand name organizations such as the Boys & Girls Clubs, or the Chicago Public Schools.
 

 

T/MC Map Gallery

 

 

T/MC Program Locator Map

The maps shown on this web site are just a few examples of computer generated maps the T/MC has created to show where tutor/mentor programs are needed, why they are needed, who is already operating, and who could be helping more.  Our goal is to make these maps interactive, so that a visitor can enlarge sections of the map and can click on symbols shown to get contact information and web links to the tutor/mentor sites, schools and other information shown on the map. 

Below are two examples of how this system might work. One allows the user to click on a zipcode map and returns a list of programs available there. The other contains a clickable map of communities. Clicking on an area returns a zoomed in map of the community with program, business, church, and school location points linked to detailed information.  We're now working with a team of talented and dedicated volunteers. We seek business, university and philanthropy partners who value this system, want to use it in their own community, and don't want to reinvent the cost of creating a system that could be used by multiple stakeholders in multiple locations.  If you are interested in investing or volunteering time, email tutormentor2@earthlink.net or visit the on-line GIS planning team at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TutorMentor_GIS_Project/

 

 

 

The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) Mission:

To gather and organize all that is known about successful non-school tutor/mentor programs and share that knowledge to expand the availability and enhance the effectiveness of these services to children in inner city Chicago and other poverty areas.

This mission is accomplished through a four-part strategy. 1) It aims to increase knowledge about what works, where programs are located and where more are needed. 2) It aggressively shares this knowledge in a marketing and public awareness campaign aimed at 3) creating a greater involvement of all adults, and a greater flow of essential resources to individual programs; and a 4) better understanding among all stakeholders of the long-term, integrated actions needed to help children and youth move from a birth in poverty to a job and a career. For each child this is a minimum 25-year commitment.

To learn more about the Tutor/Mentor Connection and its host organization, Cabrini Connections visit the following web sites:

http://www.tutormentorconnection.org

http://www.tutormentorexchange.net

http://www.cabriniconnections.net



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