Think back on some of the caring adults you had in your life when you were a child.  They might have been family members, friends of the family, clergy, scout leaders and teachers.  These were the folks who guided your decisions, provided you with safe learning experiences.  A mentor is an older friend who has life experience and models appropriate behavior.  The spend time listening to and encouraging mentees. 

If you had someone like this in your life, you know how important it was.  Or maybe you didn’t have someone like this, but can see how it would have benefited you.  Here is your chance to pay that back to a young person in your community.

The Moscow Mentor Program matches adult volunteers from the community and Moscow High School students (Bear Buddies) with students in grades K-6 in Moscow Elementary Schools.  The Moscow Mentor Program is a school-based program.  This means that all meetings between mentors and mentees occur on school grounds during the school day.  After completion of the application process, mentors receive a handbook, attend a training/orientation program, successfully complete fingerprinting and a background check, and are then matched with a student sharing similar interests. 

Mentors and mentees meet one day each week for one hour during the school day and on school grounds. Mentors and mentees spend their time talking, listening to each other, reading together, eating lunch, shooting baskets, flying kites, making art projects, doing school work, playing computer games and much more.  The emphasis on our program is to build a relationship between two people.

For more information, or to request an application, please call (208) 892-1152 or 1149

Program staff: Charlie Gerke, Lynn Weaver, and Donal Wilkinson