Mentors
Invest in Our Future
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Mentors include business people, retired citizens, college students, homemakers, and elected officials, or just about anyone who:
We have ongoing opportunities for adults over the age of 20 to become mentors for high school students in the Bay Point/Concord and Richmond communities. If you are interested in making a difference in a young person's life, our volunteer opportunities are listed with Volunteer Match and The Volunteer Center of Contra Costa County. Click on either organization's links below for current opportunities with Invest In Kids. Also check out Volunteer Solutions:
Our goal is for students to be coached through their school challenges and supported to prepare for college. Students in our program receive a nominal scholarship after they graduate high school, but the main component is the mentoring relationship with an adult who can both model the positive aspects of adulthood while calling forth the student's potential. Volunteers receive mentoring training and have a solid support network available to them. The minimum commitment is one year. However the aim is that the matches will lead to life-long friendships as some of our most successful matches are well on their way to becoming. Our hope is for our Mentors to support their students all the way through the first year of college with all of its delights and challenges.
Mentors are the cornerstone of
our program; however, Invest in Kids benefits from volunteers
in several other ways.
If you are interested in contributing your time, skills and
creativity, please contact us.
Opportunities include:
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