HONORING DAVID SHAPIRO’S LEGACY AS CHAMPION OF MENTORING
We are proud to be presenting David Shapiro with our CHAMPION OF MENTORING Award at the Journey to 30 Symposium & Celebration this Fall. Join us as we recognize David for his incalculable and lasting impact on the field of mentoring.
David Shapiro, former Mass Mentoring Partnership CEO and MENTOR National CEO, will be departing after almost two decades in the mentoring movement to lead the YMCA of Greater Boston as its 14th President and CEO. David’s legacy can be felt all across the country, as he poured his energy and passion into expanding and strengthening positive and supportive youth-adult relationships.
David served as CEO of Mass Mentoring Partnership from 2004 – 2011, and his list of accomplishments at MMP is singularly impressive. During his tenure, MMP launched Mentoring Night at Fenway Park, the Highland Street AmeriCorps Ambassadors of Mentoring, Mass Mentoring Counts, and the Bill Russell Mentoring Grants Program. At MENTOR, among his many accomplishments, he partnered with global brands to elevate awareness of mentoring; he worked extensively with the Obama Foundation to center mentoring through My Brother’s Keeper; in 2014, MENTOR was selected by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to establish and lead the National Mentoring Resource Center; and he expanded MENTOR’s footprint by growing the affiliate network to 24, with several more in the final stages of development.
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Upcoming Trainings and Events December - March
Mass Mentoring Partnership offers virtual and in-person training and networking events to develop and build the capacity of high-quality youth-serving programs. We provide research-based resources and nationally recognized practices to promote positive outcomes for youth.
Trainings Description When Where
Creating Connections: Empowering Youth-Adult Relationships
Building on the work of the Search Institute, this training will prepare adults to develop relationships that powerfully and positively shape young people’s identities that help them develop thriving mindsets and create opportunities for young people to share their opinions, thoughts, and voice in programming. This interactive training is designed to build knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enhance the capacity of adults to connect and to support the development of empowering youth-adult relationships.
December 13th 9:30AM12:00PM
January 12th 10AM - 12PM
The Mentoring Institute
The Mentoring Institute offers information and tools based on the Elements of Effective Practice, the nationally recognized research-based standards for mentoring. This training series is activity based, practical, and packed with templates, tips, and resources that meet the needs of program staff. Institute topics include an introduction to mentoring and the basics of program operations including recruitment, screening, training, and mentor matching and match support.
January 18th -19th (Two day training)
10AM - 4PM
Virtual In person (Boston)
TBD
Go to massmentors.org/our-work/training-and-capacity-building/ for our full Training Calendar
If you have questions about trainings at Mass Mentoring Partnership, please contact Janeen Smith, Director of Training and Capacity Building, jsmith@massmentors.org
Consultation and Technical Assistance
Mass Mentoring Partnership is here to provide you with the support you need to start, maintain, and sustain quality mentoring relationships in your community.
Individual Consultation
MMP offers individual consultation to youth-serving programs to help with any aspect of their program. We would welcome the opportunity to get to know your unique program, discuss your program’s needs, and figure out how we might best be able to partner with you.
Join the Network
We want to connect with you! Join the MMP Network to stay up-to-date on what’s going on at Mass Mentoring Partnership and more.
ADVOCACY AND PUBLIC POLICY
MMP’s office of Government Relations and Public Policy advocates for federal and state funding for mentoring, as well as legislation and policies that support young people and their families. Working closely with legislators, mentoring organizations, and friends, MMP has successfully advocated for the state Mentoring Matching Grants (MMG) line item since 2000.
Mentoring Matching Grant funding is the only state investment solely dedicated to expanding youth mentoring in Massachusetts, and its primary goal is to increase the number of high-quality mentoring matches in the state. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, provides grants to qualifying mentoring Programs across the Commonwealth; MMP distributes the grants which are matched 1:1 by the participating programs. These grants make a public investment in mentoring programs, as well as leverage private dollars on behalf of youth.
The Hall of Flags in the Massachusetts State House is filled with mentoring advocates at Youth Mentoring Day. Youth Mentoring Day draws state legislators, policy-makers, funders, young people, and mentoring and youth-serving organizations from across the state to raise awareness of the impact of mentoring and to advocate for the Mentoring Matching Grants line item.
Our 2022 Legislative Champions, Rep. Patricia Duffy and Sen. Brendan Crighton, led the effort in the Massachusetts State Legislature to secure $1.5 million in funding for the Mentoring Matching Grants line item in Fiscal Year 2023.
Great News from the State House!
Mass Mentoring Partnership is proud to announce that the 2023 Fiscal Year budget passed in the Massachusetts legislature with $1.5 million earmarked for the Mentoring Matching Grant line item. This represents an increase of $300,000 over last year’s budget. This is also a powerful recognition of the critical role mentoring relationships play in the lives of young people, and an acknowledgment of the vital role mentoring will play in a fair and equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
MMP would like to thank the following Legislators for their support!
House Sponsors :
Patricia Duffy Lindsey Sabadosa Jacob Oliveira
Russell Holmes Andres Vargas Mike Connolly Jack Patrick Lewis Mindy Domb John Barrett III
Carmine Lawrence Gentile Vanna Howard Tram Nguyen - Served in AmeriCorps
Natalie Blais Erikay Uyterhoeven Tami Gouveia David Paul Linsky
Jon Santiago Nika Elugardo Paul Tucker Chynah Tyler Christine Barber Angelo Puppolo jr. Brandy Fluker Oakley Paul McMurtry Colleen Garry
Senate Sponsors
Messrs. Crighton Brady
Ms. Lovely Mr. O'Connor
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SAVE THE DATE YOUTH MENTORING DAY 2023 AT THE STATE HOUSE March 22, 2023
Relationships, Resilience, and Recovery
On June 22, 2022, we presented the enlightening results of the 2022 Mass Mentoring Counts survey. Since its beginning in 2006, this biennial survey has provided a snapshot of the state of structured mentoring programs in Massachusetts. This year’s study focuses on the impact that the COVID 19 pandemic has had on mentoring relationships in the Commonwealth, and it provides a detailed look into how the pandemic has affected structured mentoring programs–their staff, their mentors, the young people they serve, and their financial security. Click here to view the Mass Mentoring Counts 2022 Final Report.
In addition to providing detailed demographic information on youth served during the last two years, the report also offered a glimpse into what mentoring programs expect to see in the next two years.
MASS MENTORING COUNTS 2022
