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(Volunteer
Opportunities)
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About Be the One
Be the One Mentoring Coalition is a
collaborative effort to promote
mentoring
of youth in Thurston and Mason Counties.
The Coalition consists of 9 organizations who are united in an
effort to recruit and support volunteers, raise awareness about
the need for mentors, and convey the benefits that our mentoring
programs provide to the community. For a list of meeting dates,
please contact Tina Gehrig at 360.867.2508 or
gehrigt@co.thurston.wa.us
Our goals are to:
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1.
Increase
awareness about the positive impacts of mentoring.
Benefits
include better attendance and attitude toward school, less
drug and alcohol use, improved social attitudes and
relationships, most trusting relationships and better
communication with parents and a better chance of going on
to high educations.
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Source: Mentoring:
A Promising Strategy for Youth Development
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- Mentoring
promotes healthy relationships between adults and youth as
well as their peers.
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2.
Recruit positive volunteers for our community's youth waiting
for a mentor. Currently there is a need for 649 volunteers for
kids on wait lists.
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3.
Provide
individuals and organizations the opportunity to contribute
funds, resources, or time towards mentoring programs
or Be The One Mentoring Coalition.
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Mentoring
programs provide the necessary support, training and safety
measures for programs to be effective and productive.
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There
are many different kinds of mentoring programs.

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What
is a Mentor?
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A
mentor is an adult who, along with parents, provides a young
person with support, counsel, friendship, reinforcement and
constructive example. Mentors
are good listeners, people who care, people who want to help
young people bring out strengths that are already there.
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National
Mentoring Partnership
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Mentoring
is the development of an ongoing relationship over a sustained
period of time between two or more people where caring
individuals provide consistent support, guidance, and concrete
help to a younger person as she/he goes through life.
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Washington
State Mentors
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