News and Announcements

Kansas Mentors strives to serve as a resource center for existing programs and communities wishing to start a program. The following are helpful resources for programs and recent announcements regarding mentoring in Kansas.

Kansas Mentors newsletter "Mentor Matters" is now available.

December 2007

Mentoring in the News

Sebelius signs executive order to increase state-wide mentoring efforts
Mentoring training sessions to be held in Junction City, Kansas City
Mentoring efforts statewide to receive extra support
Governor Sebelius and Coach Snyder announce Leadership Council
Governor Sebelius and Coach Snyder establish a Council of Mentors
Snyder: Mentoring Needs and Solutions in the State of Kansas
Governor Kathleen Sebelius stresses the importance of mentoring
Coach Bill Snyder encourages fellow Kansans to mentor

Helpful Web sites:

MentorMap, http://www.MentorMap.org, supported by YouthFriends, provides the technical assistance needed to launch and sustain safe and effective school-based mentoring efforts that meet national best practice standards. This site contains many tools that would be useful to organizations starting or sustaining school-based mentoring efforts.

MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership, www.mentoring.org serves as a resource for mentoring initiatives nationwide. This site provides a step-by-step toolkit, which includes the Elements of Effective Practice™ for program managers.

The National Mentoring Center, http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/, offers a wide variety of publications and training materials to programs and mentoring professionals. All publications are available for download on this website.