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Grant Update
September 2006
This is an overview of the new mentoring grant and how it fits in with
Valley Mentoring.
Helping Services wrote a grant to the Department of Public Health whose
funding purpose was to expand mentoring into a county that our agency does
not serve. We chose Fayette for we hoped that the grant would also
include some financial support for existing mentoring programs. Our
successful grant is for 5 years and has 2 purposes.
1. Hire a part time person to help start new mentoring programs in areas
of Fayette County that do not have mentoring already and provide them with
some financial support to get them going. This person will also help all
mentoring programs in the county get certified or remain certified (Valley
Mentoring is certified) and to connect across the county in support of
each other in their mentoring work.
2. Help support financially and with technical assistance the 2 mentoring
programs in Fayette (Valley Mentoring and Volunteers for Youth) and help
them connect with TAKO (take a kid outdoors). This financial support is
to give the 2 programs an extra boost and they work toward
sustainability.
Valley Mentoring was awarded $7,300 to go toward salary/benefits,
promotion of the program, supplies and/or transportation to TAKO events.
It can not be used to provide events for matches other than TAKO ones.
The amount of funding each year of the 5 years for Valley Mentoring will
depend upon 2 things: how many other programs have been started and what
their needs are - and the needs of Valley Mentoring as other grants or
other sustainability efforts are made.
At this time Helping Services is working on a plan to fill the part time
coordinator position. We will share more as that plan solidifies. That
staff person will stay in close touch with Cassie and with the mentoring
supervisors as the project gets going and help Valley Mentoring get in
closer contact with other programs in the county for support and ideas.
- Linda Watson
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