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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area
731 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone: 925-918-2657
Fax: 415-495-5704
Website: www.bbbsba.org
Contact: Dolores Santa Cruz
E-mail: dsantacruz@bbbsba.org

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area helps build responsible, independent children and youth by matching each with a supportive and caring adult role model. Our mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships that provide measurable impact.

Program Type: Community-based; school-based, site-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 6 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 4 - 12 hours per month
Length of commitment: 12 months

Be A Mentor, Inc.
1260 B Street, Suite 375
Hayward, CA 94541
Telephone: 510 795-6488 ext. 175
Fax: 510-795-6498
Website: www.beamentor.org
Contact: Meilan Liu
E-mail: mliu@beamentor.org

The mission of Be A Mentor is to cause at-risk youth to understand the relationship between choices and consequences on their quest to becoming productive citizens through the help of community volunteer mentors.

Program Type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support); tutoring/academic; career development; sports/recreation
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 7 - 12
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: minimum 4 hours per month
Length of commitment: minimum 12 months

Centerforce Leaders In Future Environments (LIFE) Project
2955 Kerner Blvd
San Rafael, CA 94901
Telephone: (415) 456-9980, ext. 117
Fax: (415) 456-2146
Website: www.centerforce.org
Contact: Alison Tanzer, LIFE Project Coordinator
E-mail: Atanzer@centerforce.org

Leaders in Future Environments (LIFE) Project is a mentoring program that aims to strengthen and promote leadership in youth affected by parental incarceration.
The LIFE Project accomplishes this by providing one-on-one mentoring, group activities every six weeks, and annual retreats that focus on the special needs and unique challenges that our mentees face. All activities are sponsored by the LIFE Project.

Program Type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 11 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 1 hour per week
Length of commitment: 12 months

BUILD
449 15th Street, Suite 401
Oakland, CA 94612
Telephone: (510) 629-6939
Fax: (510) 271-7944
Website: www.build.org
Contact: Hillary Fernandes
E-mail: hillary@build.org


BUILD is an innovative four-year business development program which connects under-resourced high school students with adult mentors and professionals around the Bay Area. Our mission is to provide real-world entrepreneurial experience that empowers youth from backgrounds that are under-represented in college to excel in education, lead in their communities, and succeed professionally. To date, 100% of BUILD graduates have been accepted to college.
 
Program Type: School-based, site-based
Mentoring focus: Career development
Mentoring ratio: Team mentoring (2 mentors:3-5 mentees)
Mentee ages: 14 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 1.5 hours per week (3:30 - 5:00 pm or 5:30 - 7:00 pm)
Length of commitment: 9 or 11 months

Building Futures Mentoring Program
Urban Services YMCA
1426 Fillmore St., Suite 204
San Francisco, CA 94115
Telephone: 415-561-0631x102
Fax: 415-563-8017
Website: www.ymcasf.org/urban/programs/building_futures
Contact: Nick Wightman
E-mail: nwightman@ymcasf.org

The Building Future mission is to help at-risk youth overcome personal, social, and family challenges through a positive adult-child relationship. Building Futures offers 1-to-1 mentoring to at-risk youth in San Francisco/Marin/San Mateo/Alameda counties. We help children develop tools to cope with issues such as low self-esteem, family and peer conflicts, academic underachievement, and decision-making skills. We are unique in that we provide a 15-hour paraprofessional training to all mentors before matching, which prepares them to work successfully with at-risk youth by developing relationship-building skills, exploring issues facing at-risk youth, and strategies to handle difficult situations. Thorough ongoing support is provided by the coordinator who is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern.
 
Program Type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support; Tutoring/academic; Sports/recreation
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 6 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 1 - 3 hours per week
Length of commitment: 12 months

 

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