Welcome to the Youth Mentoring
section of the Lancaster Drug & Alcohol Information Center
website. Here you will find information, resources and websites for
parents, mentors, potential
mentors, and mentoring program administrators.
Click
here for mentoring opportunities at the Council on Drug
& Alcohol Abuse.
Use the following links
to navigate on this page:
Downloads/Publications
Lancaster Information Center
Fact Sheets:
- DAFS033—Mentoring:
Guidelines for Parents
- DAFS034—Mentoring:
Parent FAQs
Links to
Internet Resources
Local Links and
Mentoring Opportunities:
Big
Brothers Big Sisters of Lancaster County: Big Brothers
Big Sisters of Lancaster County matches youth (ages 6 - 14) with caring
adult mentors. The cornerstone of the Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring
program revolves around One-to-One® mentoring; one child matched
with one adult. Each mentoring relationship will help the child to
become a confident, competent and caring individual.
COBYS Family Services:
Motivated by Christian faith, COBYS Family Services educates, supports
and empowers children and adults to reach their full potential. Classes
offered to improve mentoring skills.
Council
On Drug & Alcohol Abuse: The Council On Drug &
Alcohol Abuse (the Council) operates a number of prevention programs,
including the Alternative Community Interventions
(ACI), which features a summer camp (Kids' Kamp),
an after-school program (Future Generations), and
a summer day camp (Connections).
Love
INC: Love INC is a ministry strategy by which individual
congregations come together to meet the needs of the community. The
organization matches caring volunteers with people in need of their
special gifts.
United
Way Volunteer Center: The United Way Volunteer Center
links potential volunteers with volunteer opportunities. They have
a comprehensive list of agencies and organizations that provide mentoring
opportunities and related activities, such as tutoring.
National Links:
Big
Brothers/Big Sisters of America: The largest and probably
best known mentoring program in the country, BBBSA has been in operation
since 1904. Links to local BBBSA sites are included.
The National
Mentoring Partnership: This site is
rich in resources for those working in the mentoring field or those
who want to start a program. The interactive features are really well
designed and helpful. Diagnostic tools help determine what may be
wrong with an existing program and a question and answer format is
available to resolve problems or concerns that a mentor might be having.
Mentors and potential mentors will
also find many useful resources.
The
National Mentoring Center: A great resource for training
and other information for program administrators. Sample forms for
mentoring programs are available for downloading in .pdf or Word format.
Links to most of the other national organizations are easily accessed
here as are links to on-line funding resources.
Public/Private
Ventures: This website features research and publications
about mentoring, along with other related topics. This non-profit
organization provides many content-rich features on its site. Many
of the publications are available for downloading.
America's
Promise: The Alliance for Youth: This national organization
is dedicated to mobilizing the nation on behalf of America's youth.
The website contains many reference materials and documents for community
organizers. Local program personnel can update the local information
directly to the site.
Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention: The Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention supports Juvenile Mentoring Programs
called JUMP Centers in many communities. They also are the funding
source for many of the national groups and programs that support mentoring.
