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

Every two or three weeks we will feature a map below that supplements a story that has been recently featured in Chicago newspapers, either because of an act of violence, activities of street gangs, or issues about poorly performing schools. The map featured below shows the locations of Chicago's 2009 murders, as reported by The Red Eye.

Maps like this one show clear patterns between poverty and violence, and the need for more adult support for the youth in these high-poverty districts becomes clear. The map also shows locations of any known tutoring and/or mentoring programs in the city.

Leaders 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 be a volunteer, or a donor, or to enroll a student. These tools also allow leadership to 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. Visit the T/MC Map Gallery to see more maps like the one shown below. 

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