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Become a Member
Mentoring programs come in all types, sizes and organizational affiliation. The Greater Houston Mentoring Collaborative welcomes any program that follows professional standards to become a member. Joining the Collaborative requires completing the on-line application and adhering to the following.
Member Requirements
- Membership dues payment ranging from $35 to $250 a year, on a sliding scale, based on your organization's budget.
- Appoint a representative to the Greater Houston Mentoring Collaborative who can speak and act on behalf of your program and organization. To retain voting priveleges, your representative must attend 75% of Collaborative membership meetings (approximately every other month).
- Participate in an annual membership survey that collects information used to increase community awareness of and support for youth mentoring.
- Participate actively in Collaborative activities designed to improve the quality of mentoring programs, such as resource leveraging, information sharing, and adopting common outcome measures.
Member Benefits
- Access more potential mentors through this website, joint mentor recruitment drives and other Collaborative events (e.g., National Mentoring Month).
- Participate in Collaborative staff and volunteer training opportunities that promote best practices.
- Network and collaborate more with similar programs to better leverage resources and improve efficiencies.
- Gain wider recognition as a member
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Sue knew Yolanda before she became her mentor. Before changing careers, Sue had been a social worker, serving as case manager at CROSSROADS, Community Partnership for Youth, Inc. "Yolanda had been on the waiting list so when I left my job, and there was no longer a conflict of interest, I told Donna, the program coordinator at CROSSROADS, that I wanted to be a mentor to Yolanda," says Sue. "I felt a strong connection to her. She was a sweet kid and I knew that her mother had left."
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