Mentors Needed Across CVSD!

Connecting Youth Mentoring

Be someone who matters to someone who matters.

CY Mentoring is one of the largest mentoring programs in Vermont, serving 5th-8th graders across Champlain Valley School District. School-based programs support our middle school mentor/mentee pairs while community-based programs support our high school pairs. Learn more about mentoring's impact below.

WHY MENTOR?

Research confirms that quality mentoring relationships have powerful, positive effects on young people in a variety of personal, academic, and professional situations. Ultimately, mentoring connects a young person to personal growth and development, and social and economic opportunity. ~Source:MENTOR National

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WHO ARE MENTORS?

Mentors are fun, caring, trustworthy adults who provide a consistent presence in a young person’s life. By sharing just one hour a week, a mentor can help a young person enhance their self-confidence, improve academic performance, prevent substance abuse, and explore [new] interests and passions while enriching their own life.

SCHOOL-BASED PROGRAM

Our school-based program is offered to CVSD middle school students - grades 5th-8th. They're matched with trustworthy and respectful volunteers who spend one hour a week, during the school day. Each school has a dedicated mentor space for pairs to explore projects and activities like cooking, crafting, games, sports or just easeful conversation.