The "4-H Mentor Michigan Initiative" focuses on the expansion and strengthening of mentoring programs in targeted Michigan communities. This project will enlist 80 full-time AmeriCorps members statewide to serve with Michigan State University Extension (MSUE) 4-H staff and the other community-based youth mentoring programs to recruit 2,000 potential volunteers to serve as mentors. Members will assist in training and matching 825 volunteers statewide to build the capacity of each community to establish one-to-one or small group mentoring programs. As a result of these efforts, 1,650 low-income, at-risk, or underserved youth, age 5 to 19 years old, will participate in on-going mentoring relationships.
AmeriCorps members will also be expected to work with local mentoring collaboratives, schools, civic organizations, and/or local faith-based organizations to develop or strengthen local partnerships related to mentoring. Fifty new partnerships will be formed (statewide) during the current year of the grant. If local mentoring coalitions do not exist in the targeted communities, a priority will be to organize and establish a community wide group for this purpose.
Counties Served: Cheboygan, Clare, Clinton, Eaton, Emmet, Genesee, Gladwin, Ingham, Iron, Isabella, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Livingston, Midland, Muskegon, Oakland, Oscoda, Ottawa, Presque Isle, St. Clair, and Wayne
Contact Information: Molly Frendo, Program Manager
Michigan State University
240 Agriculture Hall
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1039
Phone: (517) 432-7606
Email: frendo@msu.edu
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