mentors needed, cyMentors

Posted by on September 05, 2011

cyMentors is a collaborative project with the sophomore class of Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus in West Phila (53rd and Media) and iMentor, a non-profit from New York who has developed a successful model of matching professionals with high school students to provide career, school and college guidance, via weekly email chats and a monthly in-person visit. We are asking mentors to make a commitment to support students from this year through their high school graduation, so it is a worthwhile commitment.
The program is comprehensive. There’s an application, training session, brief interview, clearance and reference check that occurs before mentors are matched. These are paid for by the program. The prompts that mentees respond to are initiated by the students from a curriculum our City Year project leader uses with the students during study hall. We also organize the monthly events the mentors/mentees attend.

Requirements are:

21years of age
Have an undergraduate degree
Live in the Phila region

We need to find mentors for 125 students. We need your help in sharing this program with your college connections to see if they would be willing to apply.  City Year will come in an do a presentation for them. Our goal is to move candidates through the process as quickly as possible so they will be ready for the program launch in October.

Darryl Bundrige
Deputy Director Program and Service
City Year Greater Philadelphia
2221 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor|Philadelphia, PA 19103
C: 267-471-6191
dbundrige@cityyear.org