Henry County Mentoring ProgramIssue No. 23 
Henry County Agricultural Extension District
Greetings!

 

We are very excited to share with you our new logo...Club M!
Every mentoring relationship starts with the "Match" of the mentee to the mentor. We match them based on mutual interests and personality types because we want them to "Mesh" and stay together.  Lastly, it is a place for the mentee to "Belong". So few children in our community feel that they belong to something or that they have a place to go. Club M gives them that place.

Match. Mesh. Belong.
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Back to School
Are you ready?

Middle School mentor book

Club M is in full swing preparing for the 2011-2012 school year. Our activity tubs are filled with wonderful toys, games, arts/crafts, and material needed for mentors and mentees to enjoy. We have books of activities ready for anyone wanting creative mentoring activity ideas. Here are just a few..... 

  • Play Uno together and pick a topic to discuss for every color. Green: share your favorite thing you did over the summer. Red: Your dream vacations. Yellow: the thing you dislike about school starting.  Orange: school lunches.
  • Skittle Me This.  Using a bag of skittles, (or M&M's) let the mentee select what they want to share with you based on colors. You each have to share whatever the other picks out.
  • Dominos, Checkers, Backgammon, Card games
  • Time Capsule. Starting today...make a time capsule that you will open up on the last day of school.

 

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New Match Coordinator
Please welcome Carrie Brown as the new Club M Match Coordinator.  Ms. Brown will be assisting our Program Coordinator, Cassie Gerst, with match support and training.  Ms. Brown joins the Henry County Mentoring Program after working at the Mt. Pleasant High School's Guidance office last school year.
Carrie Brown will be a wonderful addition to our Program Staff and her experience with youth, camp counseling, and parent/family work will be a perfect compliment to our program.  Her first day will be August 29th at which time she will work full time at the ISU Extension Office in Mt. Pleasant. 

Welcome, Carrie! 
In This Issue
Back to School
Meeting place in Mt P
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Wednesdays at MPMS
Are you looking for a place to go with your mentee? 


Every Wednesday beginning September 7th all mentoring matches can meet at the Mt. Pleasant Middle School. Each Wednesday during the school year, the Middle School has opened its doors to our mentoring matches. They can meet there until 4:30 pm.  As the Middle School is the bus hub for all the Mt. Pleasant Schools, all of the mentees will be able to get to the school without a problem.
This is a wonderful opportunity for all of the children in the Mt. Pleasant area as it opens up more people to mentoring. Spread the word!!!