Champaign-Urbana One-to-One Mentoring Program

National Mentoring Month: January 2009

January, 2009, will be the 8th annual National Mentoring Month. Watch here for planned activites, which will include our annual mentor breakfast and Thank Your Mentor Day (Thursday, January 22, 2009).

Read about 2008 NMM -- Inside Illinois: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/II/08/0117/mentors.html

Workplace Mentoring Internship Program

A partnership of C-U One-to-One Mentoring and the C-U Business Community

A Model for School-Business Partnerships

Program Objective: To provide Champaign-Urbana high school students involved in the C-U One-to-One Mentoring Program an opportunity for intensive workplace mentoring with a focus on teaching work habits, work skills and helping the individual student to discover the various opportunities available to them in a specific employment area.

Plan: The business will offer 1-3 students involved in the mentoring program the opportunity to work alongside a manager or director for a period of six weeks in the summer on a full time basis (hours approximately 8:00-5:00 with a one hour lunch; to be finalized between the student and the business mentor). June 16-July 25, 2008 are the suggested dates.

Mentor Training Schedule

There are still two options for mentor training this fall:
Thusday, October 9th, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Champaign Public Library. In the Robeson Room
OR Wednesday, October 15th, from 11:30-1:30 at the Phillips Recreation Center, 505 W. Stoughton, Urbana.

Register for one of the training sessions by calling 337-0853.

If you are interested in mentoring in the fall, complete attached application form and send to Barbara Linder (for Urbana Schools): blinder@usd116.org or
Lauren Smith (for Champaign Schools): smithla@champaignschools.org

2008 Scholarship Banquet for Middle School/High School

Thursday, May 8th

Photos from the Middle School/High School banquet can be viewed at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/barblinder/MentorBanquet0802

2008 Elementary Year-End Pizza Party & Magic Show

Featuring the Magic of Andy Dallas

Thursday, May 15th

Photos from the Elementary Pizza Party & Magic Show can be viewed at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/barblinder/ElementaryBanquet08