Introduction to Tutor/Mentor Connection - The Rest of the Story

If you read something tragic in the papers, like a youth being shot, or a life being lost to gangs, drugs, or the cumulative impact of poverty, and you want to do something to change the future for kids born or living in high poverty neighborhoods, I encourage you to visit the www.tutormentorconnection.org web site and use it like a text book, as a resource, and as a guide for how you, your church, your business and/or your friends change what's happening in many inner city neighborhoods.

I've led a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program for more than 30 years and I've seen how the connection of a youth and an adult volunteer can transform both lives. Thus, I try to build these connections in the Cabrini Connections program, which service 7th to 12th grade teens living in the Cabrini Green area. And, I share what I've learned in the past 30 years, and in a 17 year advertising career with Montgomery Ward, to try to help similar programs grow in every high poverty neighborhood.

I maintain a blog at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com, and host an extensive library at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org. Thus, I won't write in this blog as frequently as I do in the other spaces.

However, everytime you read something negative in the news, about poor schools, poverty, kids in gangs, drugs, etc., then I hope you'll visit my blog to see what I'm saying and how I'm pointing you to places in the city where you can be a tutor, mentor, leader or donor, or where you can help start a new program to fill a void.

If you learn to go to the tutor/mentor blog you'll begin to look at this as "the rest of the story" that media and public leaders are not telling when they respond to the tragedies of our inner city neighborhoods.