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Mentoring for Success
SFUSD School
Health Programs Department
1515 Quintara St
San Francisco, CA 94116
Telephone: 415-242-2615 ext. 3078
Fax: 414-242-2618
Website:
www.healthiersf.org
Contact: Erin Farrell
E-mail: farrelle@sfusd.edu
Mentoring For Success
is a school-based mentoring program designed to build student assets. The program creates high-quality mentoring relationships
that result in 1) sustained relationships, improvements in academic performance, and decreased absenteeism and 2) enhanced
school environment, promotion of pro-social norms, and reduced high risk behavior.
Program Type: School-based
Mentoring
focus: Social-emotional support; tutoring/academic; career development; sports/recreation
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee
ages: 11 - 14
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: minimum 1 hour per week
Length of commitment: minimum
12 months
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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
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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
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First Exposures
SF
Camerawork
657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Telephone: 415-512-2020 x107
Fax: 415-512-7109
Website:
www.sfcamerawork.org
Contact: Erik Auerbach
E-mail: firstexposures@sfcamerawork.org
We
are a weekly Saturday photography mentoring program for at-risk youth, pairing each youth one-on-one with an adult volunteer
mentor in order to learn photography. Youth: Creative young people, ages 11-18, whose backgrounds may include former homelessness
or current low-income living situations. Volunteers: Mentors come to us from many different professions, but all mentors share
a background in black and white photography and a commitment to youth and education.
Program type: Community-based;
site-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support; Career development
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages:
11 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 5 hours per week
Length of commitment: 12 months
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On the Mark Mentoring, San Francisco
Jewish
Family and Children's Services
1710 Scott Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Telephone: 415-359-2463
Fax: 415-449-2488
Website:
www.jfcs.org
Contact: Taylor Epstein
E-mail: TaylorE@jfcs.org
Jewish Family and Children's
Services exists to provide professional and volunteer services for the purposes of developing, restoring, and maintaining
the competency of families and individuals of all ages. On the Mark is a free, non-sectarian program of Parents Place, Jewish
Family and Children's Services serving youth 8-18 years of age who would benefit from a supportive relationship with a volunteer
adult or mature teen mentor.
Program type: Community-based; Site-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support;
Tutoring/academic; Career development
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 8 - 18
Mentee genders: male and
female
Time commitment: minimum 1 hour per week
Length of commitment: academic school year or 6 months (whichever is
longer)
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San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocate
Program
100 Bush Street, Suite 650
San Francisco, CA 94104
Telephone: 415-398-8001
Fax: 415-398-8068
Website:
www.sfcasa.org
Contact: Leah Cerri
E-mail: leah@sfcasa.org
The San Francisco Court Appointed
Special Advocate Program (SFCASA) serves children who have been victims of abuse, neglect, or abandonment and placed under
the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Juvenile Dependency Court. SFCASA recruits, screens, trains, and supervises volunteers
from San Francisco's diverse communities to become both advocates and mentors for court-dependent children.
Program
type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Advocacy; Social-emotional support
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages:
0 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Length of commitment: 18 months
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Asian American Recovery Services Stay Safe
Mentoring
1115 Mission Road
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Telephone: 650-243 - 4850
Fax: 650-243-4851
Website:
www.aars-inc.org
Contact: Alan David
E-mail: a_david@aars-inc.org
Asian American Recovery
Services, Inc. aims to decrease the incidence and impact of substance abuse in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities
of the San Francisco Bay Area. To accomplish this goal, Asian American Recovery Services, Inc. develops and provides innovative
outreach, treatment, prevention, and research services for its target populations. Because there are multiple causes and effects
of substance abuse, Asian American Recovery Services, Inc. also engages in ancillary activities to meet its goal.
Program
Type: Community-based; school-based; site-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support; tutoring/academic
Mentoring
ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 11 - 14
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 3 - 5 hours per week
Length
of commitment: 12 months - 3 years
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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
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Spark
3543 18th St, #28
San
Francisco, CA 94110
Telephone: 415-626-5470
Fax: 415-354-8491
Website: www.sparkprogram.org
Contact: Nathalie Wade
E-mail: nwade@sparkprogram.org
Spark is a
youth empowerment program engaging students with apprenticeships, interactive field trips, and personal development. Spark's
mission is to inspire middle-school youth to pursue their interests, create bonds with their communities, and develop a lifelong
interest in learning. We are always looking for volunteer mentors to work with students as Apprentice Teachers, opening their
workplace to students who dream of working in their profession. Spark is offered as both a full-day summer program and a twice-weekly
after-school program for middle-school youth in Redwood City and San Francisco.
Program type: Community-based
Mentoring
focus: Career development
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 12 - 13 (7th and 8th grades)
Mentee genders:
male and female
Time commitment: 2 hours per week in fall and spring; 6 hours per week in summer
Length of commitment:
4 weeks in summer; 10 weeks in fall and spring
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Community-Based Therapeutic Mentoring
Instituto
Familiar de la Raza
2919 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Telephone: 415-229-0500
Fax: 415-647-0740
Website:
www.ifrsf.org
Contact: Tina
E-mail: cbtm@ifrsf.org
The mission of Instituto Familiar de
la Raza, Inc. (IFR) is to promote and enhance the health and well-being of Chicanos/Latinos and multicultural/multiracial
youth. That mission is realized through a continuum of mental health, HIV-related and social services including health promotion
and prevention, early intervention, case management, therapeutic mentoring, family support, comprehensive behavioral health
services, and cultural/spiritual activities and practices.
Program Type: Community-based, Paid position
Mentoring
focus: Social-emotional support
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring, Group mentoring
Mentee ages: 5 - 18
Mentee genders:
male and female
Time commitment: minimum 8 hours per week
Length of commitment: minimum 12 months
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The SMART Program
1345 Mission St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone: 415-865-5400
Fax:
415-865-0505
Website: www.theSMARTprogram.org
Contact: Erin Gevertz E-mail: erin@thesmartprogram.org
SMART (Schools, Mentoring and Resource Team) is an educational non-profit organization that works with private
middle schools in San Francisco to provide a three year scholarship (6th through 8th grade) to motivated students who cannot
otherwise afford the opportunities and resources of a private school education. SMART is looking for Volunteer Mentors to
provide social-emotional support for students in the transition from public elementary to private middle school. Volunteer
Tutors are also needed to offer academic support once or twice a week from 5:30pm-7pm, Monday thru Thursday.
Program
Type: Community-based, School-based, Site-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support; Tutoring/academic
Mentoring
ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 10 - 14
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: minimum 2 hours
per week
Length of commitment: minimum 12 months
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Youth Justice Institute Inside Mentoring
Program
375 Woodside Ave. W2
San Francisco, CA 94127
Telephone: 415-753-7625
Fax: 415-753-7859
Website:
www.yjinstitute.org
Contact: Kaina T. Walker
E-mail: Kaina@yjinstitute.org
We believe
every young person has the right to dignity, humanity and justice. The mission of the Youth Justice Institute (YJI) is to
effectively address the needs of system-involved youth so they transition into healthy adults.
The Inside Mentoring
Program is part of Youth Justice Institute services provided to youth detained at San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center. Mentors
visit with clients two times per week offering support, guidance, education and assistance to youth in detention. Youth are
selected based on need, including lack of family support, severity of case and other special circumstances.
Program
Type: Community-based; Site-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support; Tutoring/academic; Career development
Mentoring
ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 11 - 24
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: minimum 4 hours per week
Length
of commitment: 1 semester, approximately 4 months
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Building Futures Mentoring Program Urban Services YMCA
1426 Fillmore
St., Suite 204
San Francisco, CA 94115
Telephone: 415-561-0631x102 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:
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