Friends for Youth, Inc.
1741 Broadway, first floor
Redwood City, CA 94063
Telephone:
650-482-2867
Fax: 650-368-4475
Website: www.friendsforyouth.org
Contact: Jonathan Cowgill
E-mail: mentor@friendsforyouth.org
Since 1979, Friends for Youth has been dedicated to supporting youth-in-need through quality mentoring by creating
and cultivating friendships with adult volunteers, providing opportunities for enrichment and growth, and focusing on ways
to help youth achieve their potential.
Program type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 8 - 17
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 2 hours
per week
Length of commitment: 12 months |
Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY)
568 Valley Way
Milpitas, CA 95035
Telephone:
408-263-2630
Fax: 408-263-2631
Website: www.flyprogram.org
Contact: David Cattivera
E-mail: david@flyprogram.org
FLY's mission is to prevent juvenile crime and incarceration through mentoring, legal education, and leadership
training. FLY provides services to our most at-risk and disadvantaged youth. In our Mentor Program, FLY matches youth who
are struggling with drug and/or alcohol addiction with an adult role model that meets with them every week. The mentor helps
the youth discover how to solve problems without turning to drugs or alcohol and how to have fun without being high.
Program type: Community-based; tutoring/academic; sports/recreation
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support
Mentoring
ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 13 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 8 hours per month
or 2 - 3 hours per week
Length of commitment: 12 months minimum
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Partners for New Generations places volunteer
mentors, tutors, and Child Advocates with students at Mountain View High School, Los Altos High School, and Alta Vista High
School.
Program type: School-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 14 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 4 hours per month
Length of commitment:
academic school year
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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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Jeremiah's Promise, Inc.
PO Box 1393
Palo Alto, CA 94302
Telephone:
(650) 967-1047
Fax: (650) 967-3752
Website: www.jeremiahspromise.org
Contact: Kim Golter
E-mail: info@jeremiahspromise.org
We train, equip, and supervise adults who mentor foster youth, ages 17-24, in the areas of decision making,
academic support, and career guidance. In essence, we "love, challenge, and equip foster youth for a better future!" Program
Type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support, tutoring/academic, career development, sports/recreation
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 17 - 24
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 1 hour
per week
Length of commitment: 12 months or longer
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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 |
