About Mentors Matter:
Caring and supportive relationships are essential to a young person’s development and well-being. Mentors Matter matches volunteers with young people, ages 6 to 23. Mentors must have a willingness to undergo training and a genuine interest in being a positive influence. Mentors will meet 6-8 hours a month with their youth.
Mentors Matter Provides:
One-to-One Mentoring
Mentors volunteer their time with a youth one-on-one and develop a relationship by doing various activities together. Over time, the mentor can help the youth improve their self-confidence, academic skills, life skills, and expose the youth to new opportunities, interests and connections in the community.
Group Mentoring
Group mentors may share a talent like cooking, dancing, art, yoga, drumming, soccer or skating with a group of Hull youth. The possibilities are endless; creating that spark of interest and having fun with the kids is what’s important.
Become a Mentor:
- First, see if mentoring is right for you. Evaluate yourself using our self-assessment checklist.
- Review our Volunteer Guide and complete an application.
- If selected, we will contact you for an interview.
- You will be required to complete an Intervention Record Check and Police Background Check.
- All mentors will be required to successfully complete orientation (pre-match) training and commit to completing required post-match training.
Once all the background checks are processed and you have successfully completed training requirements, you will become an approved mentor.
Mentor Profile
Dana Stan
Dana Stan is a skateboarder and a mentor. But before she got involved with Hull’s Mentors Matter program, she was neither.
While these dual passions seem somewhat unrelated, the common factor is Abby, the young woman that Stan was connected to when she decided to volunteer. She wanted to offer a young person the kind of support she didn’t have while growing up. “I try to be the person I wish I had to look up to as a teenager. There weren’t a lot of role models for me,” says Stan. “It’s been such an interesting experience. You forget what it’s like to be a teenager — what they struggle with.”
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Mentors Matter is funded in part by Family and Community Support Services.
Since 1966, Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) has helped prevent people from experiencing crisis by building their resilience to overcome challenges such as poverty, social isolation and the effects of early childhood trauma.