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:http://healthiersf.org/MentoringForSuccess
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 |
First Exposures
SF Camerawork
1011 Market Street San Francisco, CA 941035
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 |
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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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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Spark
251 Rhode Island St. Suite 205 San Francisco, CA 94103
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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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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The SMART Program
1663 Mission St, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone:
415-865-5400
Fax: 415-865-0505
Website: www.theSMARTprogram.org
Contact: Ben Buis E-mail: ben@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 |
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:
12 months |
Mixed Roots Foundation
Adoptee Mentor Program (AMP)
795
Folsom St., 1st Floor
San Francisco, CA
94107
Telephone: 800-659-6958 The Mixed Roots Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is the first and only global
multicultural adoptee-led foundation (all board members are adopted) that cross-sects the international, domestic, and foster
care adoption experience. Our mission is to promote and support organizations that serve as a resource to the adoptee community,
create more awareness of the adoption experience, and inspire the next generation of adoptees to become leaders in the community.
For the past four years, the Adoptee Mentor Program (AMP),
Mixed Roots charter program, matches youth who are adopted with adult adoptee mentors that serve as positive role models that
promote cultural understanding and acceptance of being adopted as well as participate in educational and multicultural program
events and activities. Program
Type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Relationship, Tutoring/academic, Career development
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring (1 mentor for every 1 mentee)
Mentee ages: 7 - 17
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 2 - 4 contacts per month
Length
of commitment: 12 months |
Southern Exposure
Youth Advisory Board and One-on-One Mentorship Program 3030 20th Street
San Francisco,
CA 94110
Telephone: 415-863-2141 Fax: 415-863-1841
Website: www.soex.org
Contact: Aimee Shapiro
Southern Exposure (SoEx) is a visual arts organization that supports emerging artists and youth
in a dynamic environment in which they can develop and present new work and ideas. SoEx's nationally recognized Artists in
Education (AIE) program brings together diverse youth, artists, schools, and community organizations in a dynamic series of
innovative programs. AIE offers youth opportunities to learn critical, artistic, vocational, and cultural experiences beyond
the traditional school environment. Program Type: Community-based, Site-based Mentoring focus: Relationship, Art Mentoring ratio: Group (1 mentor for every
7 mentees) for Youth Advisory Board; 1:1 mentoring (1 mentor for every 1 mentee) for One-on-One Mentorship Program
Mentee ages: 14 - 21
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment:
dependent on program Length of commitment: one
semester for Youth Advisory Board; 12 months for One-on-One Mentorship Program |
