The Stand By Me Mentoring Program
Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance
PO Box 721
Sonoma,
CA 95476
Telephone: 707-938-1990
Fax: 707-935-8136
Website: www.sonomamentoring.org
Contact: Tina Baldry, Program Coordinator
E-mail: tina@sonomamentoring.org
Our mission is to provide academic and social support to help youth reach their highest potential. We do this
by matching them one-on-one with caring adult role models from the local community who make a serious three-year commitment
to the child they are matched with. Together, they build a trusting, caring relationship in a safe, supportive environment.
Program type: Community-based; School-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support; Tutoring/academic
Mentoring
ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 5 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 1 hour per week
Length of commitment: ideally 2 - 3 years (hopefully a lifetime!)
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Mentor Me Petaluma
35 Maria Drive, Suite 852
Petaluma, CA 94954
Telephone: 707-778-4798
Fax: 707-778-4798
Website: www.mentormepetaluma.org
Contact: Val Richman
E-mail: info@mentormepetaluma.org
Mentor Me Petaluma is a school-based, youth mentoring program that matches adult volunteers from the community
in one-to-one mentorships with children and youth in Petaluma. The three-prong focus of mentoring is emotional support, social
integration, and academic help/planning for the future. Our mentors make a minimum commitment of two years, meeting with their
mentees a minimum of one hour a week.
Program type: School-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support;
Tutoring/academic
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 5 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time
commitment: 1 hour per week
Length of commitment: 2 years
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Foster Youth Development Mentoring
Forget Me Not Farm Children's Services 5345 Highway 12, West
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Telephone: 707-577-1913
Forget Me Not Farm Children's Services, a subordiante organization to the Sonoma Humane Society, provides mentoring
through the Foster Youth Development Mentoring program. This is an on-site vocational mentoring program for foster youth between
the ages of 14 - 18. All youth are matched one-on-one with a mentor and taught basic skills necessary to prepare for employment.
The Humane Society has nine different departments for students to choose from and, after being trained for six weeks and matched
with a mentor, they commit to at least one year of service. During this time, youth learn the soft skills necessary to get
and retain a job in the real world along with the important relationship building skills from their match. Program type: Community-based;
Site-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support; Career development
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee
ages: 14 - 19
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 2 hours per week
Length of commitment: 12 months
minimum
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the North Bay
1410 Guerneville Road, Suite C6
Santa Rosa,
CA 95403 Telephone: 707-571-2447 x228
Fax:
707-284-2291
Website: www.bbbsnorthbay.org
Contact: Lauren GraymanE-mail:
lgrayman@bbbsnorthbay.org
The mentoring programs of Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) have a positive impact on the lives of children and
families we serve by offering a professionally supported relationship between a caring adult and a child. Big Brothers/Sisters
(Bigs) are friends, mentors, and positive role models to the children (Littles) with whom they are matched.
Program
Type: Community-based; site-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee
ages: 6 - 15
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: weekly contact
Length of commitment: at least
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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 |
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