by BTO | Feb 28, 2020 | News
View the full report here. New mentoring matches slowed in January. Weather conditions brought school closures resulting in canceled mentor trainings for interested adults. Next month’s report will again show steady progress of new mentoring matches on all...
by BTO | Feb 24, 2020 | Mentoring
As we wrap up this series on the “5 C’s”, we want to give you four things you can do as a mentor in 2020 to help your students grow in these qualities (and into healthy adults). For the past several weeks, we’ve been introducing five key character qualities that we...
by BTO | Feb 21, 2020 | Events, General
We owe a huge thank you to our Event Sponsors: NCCTK for providing the space, helping with promotion and all our posters and signs and covering some event costs. Manna Insurance for the social media support and event coordination. Thrivent Financial covering some...
by BTO | Feb 17, 2020 | Mentoring
A mentoring story: In middle school, James seemed depressed and withdrawn, and was lacking a father-figure in his family. He struggled with school and didn’t have much motivation. Staff wondered if he would like a mentor, and introduced him to Herm Franzen, a caring,...
by BTO | Feb 17, 2020 | Mentoring
Welcome back to the February Mentor Minute! Last month, we introduced five key character qualities that we can look to build into our students in 2020. These qualities are known as “The Five C’s of Youth Development,” and include: competence,...
