Match. Mesh. Belong.

September 2014

Henry County Agricultural Extension District

In This Issue

Developing Trust in Your Mentoring Relationship

Club M is Back!

This school year, we will be having mentors mentoring after school on Wednesdays in Winfield-Mount Union, after school on Wednesdays in Mount Pleasant, and during 7th hour at the Mount Pleasant Middle School. We will also be holding our Mentor for a Day event again this year which will be planned by the students in Developmental Psychology at Iowa Wesleyan. We have high school, college, and community mentors with us this year and we are happy to have them all joining us.

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Thank you for supporting the Club M, Henry County Mentoring, youth program.

Club M is interested in finding new ways to connect with our mentors, mentees and their families, and the community. Our new website will be going live by the end of this month so look for it in our October newsletter.

If you are interested in the most up to date information from Club M, you can find it by visiting our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ClubM.YouthMentoring. We currently have 193 likes on Facebook and we would love to see it hit 200 this month!

We also encourage everyone to follow us on our Twitter page at https://twitter.com/ClubMMentoring.

Back to School Update

We have kicked off another great school year in both Winfield-Mount Union and Mount Pleasant!

On September 10th, 2014, Club M Wednesdays had its first meeting in Winfield-Mount Union from 2:00 to 3:00 pm. In Winfield-Mount Union, we have high school mentors mentoring youth in grades K-5.

On September 10th, 2014, Club M Wednesdays had its first meeting in Mount Pleasant in the cafeteria at the Mount Pleasant Middle School from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. In Mount Pleasant, we have high school and college mentors mentoring youth in grades K-8.

We have also partnered with the Mount Pleasant Middle School to allow 7th hour mentoring of youth who do not require academic support during that time period. Our 7th hour mentors are going to be starting within the next two weeks.

The Developmental Psychology course
at Iowa Wesleyan is mentoring with us again this semester for their academic service learning component and some of the mentors are planning our Mentor for the Day event which will take place later this semester.

Developing Trust in Your Mentoring Relationship

According to a post on the Search Institute, the conditions that foster trust in a mentoring relationship include:

1) Being reliable, consistent, patient, and persistent with your mentee.

2) Encouraging your mentee to take the lead in deciding what you will do together.

3) Telling your mentee what positive qualities or behaviors you see in her or him.

4) Having fun together and creating shared memories.

5) Listening to cultivate understanding-rather than only giving advice.

6) Keeping your conversations with your mentee private-not telling parents or teachers the details of your conversations.

7) Not pushing your mentee to achieve goals you have set.

8) Being trustworthy yourself by keeping your word.

Staff

Cassie Gerst---Program Coordinator

Heidi Hedgecock---Match Support Specialist

Chelsea White--AmeriCorps VISTA for Club M and Iowa Wesleyan College

Volunteers

Needed

Do you like being a mentor? If so, help us spread the word about our program.

Here is what you could do to help us match more children....

1) Invite us to speak at your Club, Association,Church or work

2) Ask your work or church to put a blurb about us in thier Newsletter

3) Add www.HenryCountyMentoring to your email signatures

4) Facebook about the fun you are having as a Club M Mentor

5) Tweet out about Club M and follow us on Twitter

6) Talk to a friend about us....and help recruit more Volunteer Mentors

Thanks for helping spread the word! Match. Mesh. Belong. Club M.