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Community Connections Mentoring

The mission of the Community Connections Mentoring Program is to help children reach their potential through professionally, supported, one-on-one relationships with adult mentors that have a measurable impact on youth in Lincoln County and beyond.

 

About Community Connections

We build connections between community agencies, businesses, neighborhoods, schools, families and individuals to coordinate activities, services, and programs that enhance the quality of life in Lincoln County. We create change and inspire others to work together toward a better tomorrow.

 


Community Connections Mentoring
 

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About our program

Everyone hopes for a chance in life to do something that truly impacts the world. That's what mentoring is all about — changing children's lives by providing guidance, support and positive relationships. Mentoring, at its core, guarantees young people that there is someone who cares about them, assures them they are not alone in dealing with challenges, and helps them to know that they matter. Our program is community-based, with the flexibility of meeting at any of your favorite public locations around town or during school lunch. Mentoring pairs spend 4 to 8 hours a month together and this can include attending our monthly group activities. Community Connections utilizes the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring, a research-informed best practices guide.

Get involved

We hope you will consider taking the journey in creating positive change by becoming a mentor. If you listen actively, care about people, empathize with youth, and see opportunities — then you are ready to make a difference! Click here for more information about becoming a mentor, or call us at 308-696-0975 for more information about joining our program.

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Apply to participate in Community Connections Mentoring

Once you have completed and returned a Mentor Application to Community Connections Mentoring, the required background screening process will begin.

See some awesome coverage of our recent “Phone-a-Friend” mentor recruitment lunch, on news 2 at

https://www.knopnews2.com/video/2022/01/12/news-ten-phone-friend-mentor/.

We, at Community Connections, strive to be a diverse and inclusive organization that will empower individuals, elevate youth, strengthen our communities, and create a better world for us all.

 

impact

Impact is a social emotional learning program for everyone in our mentoring program. This includes matched mentoring pairs, children waiting for mentors and children who were members of our Impact Team at Madison School during the 2020-2021 school year. The program includes a meal and activities at North Platte Senior Center on the first Monday of each month, at 5:30 pm.

This program is coupled with another activity each month to reinforce lessons learned in the first-Monday meetings or to offer participants opportunities to have field trips or other activities to learn more about the world around them and how to interact in it successfully.

The program is made possible, in part, by a donation from Walmart Distribution Center.

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Advisory Council

  • Matt Foskett

  • Kara Hahn

  • Jennifer Schlager

  • Virginia Huffman

  • Tristan Winder

  • Jill Stevenson

 

  • Val Hyde

  • Jim Strecker

  • Jeremiah Johnson

  • Ashley Vak

  • TinaMaria Fernandez

Program Partners

  • Region II Human Services

  • MENTOR Nebraska

  • North Platte Public Schools

  • Madison Middle School

  • Sutherland Public Schools

  • Hope Esperanza

 

  • Mid-Plains United Way

  • Nebraska Game & Parks

  • North Platte Senior Center

  • Ready to Serve Volunteer Program

  • Walmart Distribution Center