Welcome to the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator. This web service is intended to help people in the Chicago region find information about non-school tutoring and/or mentoring programs operating in different parts of the Chicago region. It is also intended to help these non profit organizations get the volunteers and financial support each needs to provide effective services to youth in their areas. Finally, it is intended to serve as a planning tool to help businesses, faith groups and community leaders form new programs where none now exist.

Read the HOW TO pdf tutorials at the left to learn to use this resource. The more often you use it, the better you will understand how the features help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow in neighborhoods where they are most needed

USE OF MAPS TO BUILD COMMUNITIES OF SUPPORT FOR VOLUNTEER-BASED TUTORING AND/OR MENTORING PROGRAMS

Every few weeks we will feature a map that either supplements a story that has been recently featured in Chicago newspapers (because of an act of violence, activities of street gangs, or issues about poorly performing schools) or helps show how community leaders can join forces to improve the quality and number of tutor/mentor options for students in high-poverty and high-crime neighborhoods.

 

We have seen collaborations work to support mentor-to-career programs for student in other industries. Most notably, we have seen lawyers come together to pool resources and make a huge difference in community-rooted movements to fight poverty using tutoring/mentoring strategies. We are now seeing grocery stores come together to cultivate the communities young minds. Help us continue to connect our strategies and technologies to local leaders who have the power to make a huge difference.

Visit the Mapping for Justice blog this past week for more discussion about how we collaborate together, sharing ideas and strategies, for the promotion of more and better tutor/mentor programs everywhere.

In general, leaders from anywhere in the community or world can use these maps, the Interactive Maps and the Find A Program link at the right to find contact information that can be used to reach out to potential volunteers or donors, or for families to help enroll a student. These tools help leadership visualize which neighborhoods have enough tutor/mentor programs, or where there are too few programs.  Volunteers, donors and business partners can use these maps to determine where to offer talent, leadership, dollars and technology to help existing programs provide constantly improving services, and to help create new programs where needed. Together we can help assure that No Child in Chicago is Left Behind.

Learn more about Tutor/Mentor Connection strategies and ways these maps can be used at the Tutor/Mentor Institute web site: http://www.tutormentorexchange.net