Pictures from FLOW 

Gingerbread house decorating at Margaret Brent Middle

White Marsh Elementary Makes Penguin Bowling Pins Wooden pins were donated by local police department; mentors/mentees created the penguins and will give one to each teacher, with his/her name on it, to use as a doorstop!

Mentoring In the News

Nation's Leaders to Attend the 2nd Annual National Mentoring Summit   

The second annual National Mentoring Summit will build on the overwhelming success of the inaugural Summit of 2011. MENTOR, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the Harvard School of Public Health, the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and United Way Worldwide will once again bring together major youth mentoring organizations, along with government, civic, research and corporate leaders, to evaluate best practices, review new research, chart the field's future and fundamentally ensure that more youth receive quality mentoring.

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General Colin Powell Speaks about the Importance of Mentoring   

Connecting young people to caring adults is crucial to successfully transitioning them from youth to adulthood. Mentoring is a proven method to ensure students complete their education. Youth who have a mentor are more likely to:

• Attend and engage in school.
• Finish high-school.
• Continue onto college.

Mentor - Invest in the Future PSA

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General Colin Powell  

 View the television PSA produced for National Mentoring Month 2012 with General Colin L. Powell. Download RealPlayer to view.

Who Mentored ? 

Read about Oprah's take on the importance of mentoring, along with an account of a significant mentoring relationship in her life.  

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Greetings from Maia Jones 

Maia Jones, former Assistant Program Manager for FLOW Mentoring, left us at the end of the last school year as she and her husband moved across the country to start new jobs.  Many of you remember Maia well - and she remembers you! 

Maia is now living in the Willamette Valley of Oregon with her husband, who is a professor of biology at Western Oregon University. She is working as a Child and Adolescent Treatment Specialist at a residential treatment center for emotionally and behaviorally challenged adolescents and continuing to teach yoga on the side. She is also spending as much time as possible hiking and exploring in the mountains and coastal areas of Oregon. While she is enjoying her new life and job, she misses all the wonderful and dedicated people she worked with at FLOW, as well as the students in each program. She wishes everyone an excellent year of mentoring and sends her best from the west!