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Mission Statement
The Mentoring Center’s two-tiered mission is to improve the
quality and effectiveness of mentoring programs and to provide
a direct service mentoring program model designed to transform
the lives of the most highly at-risk youth.
Who We Are
Founded in 1991, The Mentoring Center (TMC) was created to serve
as a technical assistance and training provider for Bay Area
mentoring programs. TMC has served more than 800 mentoring programs
in its 16 years of operation in the Bay Area. As a result, TMC
has worked with more than 25,000 youth and volunteer mentors.
The Mentoring Center provides technical assistance and training
to approximately 50-85 mentoring efforts, and direct mentor
training to 1,700-2,500 volunteers and program staff annually.
TMC’s technical assistance and training services are tailored
for organizations such as school districts, individual local
schools (k-12), colleges and universities, juvenile detention
facilities, faith-based organizations, community based organizations,
municipal/public institutions, and private businesses.
As a direct service provider, TMC serves between 90-130 adjudicated
and incarcerated youth between the ages of 14-25 annually through
two intensive mentoring and intervention efforts: The Transition
Program and the Positive Minds Group. In response to overwhelming
requests to conduct our programs at other locations, TMC began
the Positive Minds Group On-Location program, a condensed form
of our services conducted at local schools and community centers.
TMC also leads the City of Oakland’s two initiatives that serve
youth offenders, Pathways to Change and Project Choice.
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