Gearing Up for Fall

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Gearing Up for Fall

June 2022 | Issue No. 29

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From the Editor

Money, although necessary, will not solve the need for quality mentoring if mentors, especially males, do not volunteer to mentor. Mentors show up, validate, and empower.

Advocacy Yields Results

FY22 Federal Funding Decisions (and Opportunities)

Thanks to MENTOR's Advocacy Team and Oklahomans who spoke to Congressional leaders about their programs and the importance of mentoring.

Resources

USAFacts.org is a non-partisan, not-for-profit resource of numbers and trends in government spending to determine gaps between the federal government's services and community needs. User-friendly and helpful!

Foldscope Foldscope is the paper microscope that began as an idea to make science more accessible. For kids, mentoring programs, schools, parents...

FREE Mentor Training Targeting Young People: Older Foster Youths, Foster Alumni, Justice-Involved, Those with Visible and Invisible Disabilities. Trainees: Nonprofits, churches, and agencies operating mentoring programs. Training consists of three research-based, online courses from MentoringCentral.org. Email Nicole George, Community Planner, Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth

News

OCAST Intern Partnerships Program, project-based, requires a mentor for each student working on a project at a company. The legislature has allocated $1.5M to the program. HB4362 Text Jessica Stewart, Client Services Manager, Northern Oklahoma, Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology

OKC Innovation District’s Internship Program has launched!

Staff Transitions and Addition - Volunteers for Youth, Rogers County: Roxanne Bilby, Executive Director; Cindy Wilson, PAL+ Program Director; Calli White, PAL+ Evaluation Specialist. Congratulations to all!

Certificate programs for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities: OU SoonerWorks, NSU RiverHawks Scholars Program, and coming in the fall OSU Opportunity Orange Scholars. USAO is considering a program. Renee N. Sansom Briscoe, Transition Coordinator, Vocational Rehabilitation, Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services. Opportunities!

MacKenzie Scott gave $122.6 million to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the national youth-mentoring charity. Read about the creative ways this Rolls Royce of mentoring programs, created in 1904, plans to extend its reach.

Mentoring Videos

Brenda Merritt

Founder and Director

M.I.C.A.H. Mentors

Mentors are young people, organizations, and the unemployed, underemployed, and unemployable.

Mentors, paid indirectly for their contracted service completed, mentor seniors in facilities.

Oklahoma State University has MICAH Mentors, and the University of Oklahoma program is underway. Merritt will work with any group to spread this unique model.