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Mentoring in the Media

The Women's and Girls' Fund of the Kern Community Foundation is working to increase awareness and collaboration among mentoring programs in our county. Louis Medina of The Bakersfield Californian is helping in this effort. His article, Organizations Team Up to Increase Awareness, was published on Sunday, April 15, 2007.

The article highlighted mentoring in Kern County and reflected some of the collaboration and planning that has occurred at our Mentoring Roundtables. It was also accompanied by a table that briefly listed local mentoring organizations. A more complete description of these organizations and projects can be found under Mentoring Programs.

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Archived news articles:

April 15, 2007
The Bakersfield Californian
Organizations Team Up to Increase Awareness

April 15, 2007
The Bakersfield Californian
Program Helps Erase Poor Choices



Multimedia:

Who Mentored You?
Inspiring website that allows readers to submit a tribute honoring their own mentor. Ecards are available for thanking mentors. Read profiles of celebrities, authors, atheletes, and musicians to learn about their mentors. Listen to a PSA featuring Maya Angelou.

PSA on Mentoring Youth in Foster Care
Watch a Public Service Annoucement featuring actor Victoria Rowell ("Young and the Restless"), who spent 18 years in the foster care system and credits a mentor for changing her life.



Books on Mentoring:

A Hand to Guide Me, by Denzel Washington
From http://russosbooks.booksense.com/:
In his debut as an author, Denzel Washington shares his personal story of the mentors who helped guide his life. Washington pens the introduction for the stories of more than 70 of America's leading personalities in theatre, sports, business, and politics as they tell their life-changing stories of mentorship. Contributors include Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Antwone Fisher, Bonnie Raitt, Cal Ripken, Alex Rodriguez, Dick Vitale, Whoopie Goldberg and more. A portion of the book's proceeds benefit 4.5 million children currently involved in the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.



Mobilizing Adults for Positive Youth Development, by E. Gil Clary and Jean E. Rhodes (Editors)
From http://russosbooks.booksense.com/:
Mobilizing Adults for Positive Youth Development: Strategies for Closing the Gap between Beliefs and Behaviors brings together, in one concise volume, the advice and expertise of leading scholars dedicated to affecting positive youth development. Taken together, the chapters in this book provide a multifaceted, multidisciplinary blueprint for social change. The volume includes much-needed information on 1) Understanding the current state of youth development work, 2)Promoting individual adult involvement in adolescents lives to ensure positive youth development, 3)Mobilizing individual adults through a variety of outlets, including neighborhood and community coalitions, religious institutions, and university outreach programs, and 4)Mobilizing a society of adults, through volunteer and other programs.