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January is National Mentoring Month! Helping Services for Youth & Families is celebrating mentoring friendships and inviting others to engage in their community with the theme ‘Take ONE step to build a friendship. Become a mentor!’ Mentoring has a positive impact on youth. Research confirms that quality mentoring relationships bring about powerful and positive changes…
Autumn Nolan from Cresco Iowa became a mentor to Khloe Stermer in February of 2020 through Youth Mentoring at Helping Services. 2020 has been a different year for us all, this amazing match took it upon themselves to spread some much needed “joy” in Cresco. Autumn and Klhoe created specialty gift bags they called “joy…
Youth Mentoring at Helping Services is proud to announce an exciting partnership with Sugar Bowl, one of Decorah’s delicious ice cream shops. Beginning September 10, a mentoring gathering called Tasty Thursdays will take place from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Mentors and mentees are invited to enjoy ice cream together provided at no cost compliments of Sugar Bowl….
Youth Mentoring is excited to announce that they are one of 11 recipients in the state of Iowa to receive an Improving Tomorrow: Prevention focused Mentoring grant from the Iowa Department of Public Health. The grant has four exciting goals! They are: Support 91 mentoring matches in our four counties. Substance abuse prevention and problem…
I had the honor and pleasure of interning with Youth Mentoring at Helping Services from early February to mid-May. I had the opportunity to do many wonderful things during that time. Two of my favorites were: starting with a new mentor and taking them through the entire journey of their one-on-one interview, the two hour…
My name is Meg Gelner and I am the new Mentor Coordinator for Delaware County! My husband, three kids, and I live on an acreage Northeast of Strawberry Point. We love the outdoors! Hiking, biking, fishing and just playing together are some of our favorite things to do. Aside from raising our family, we also…
It’s time to pump up the jams and rock ’n’ roll! The Rock ‘N’ Bowl Mentoring Bowl-A-Thon will take place on March 21st at Arrowhead Lanes in Waukon. We invite you all to get involved in this important fundraiser to support Youth Mentoring and have fun. Now is the time to register to bowl. You…
My name is Laura Lehman, a senior social work major from Minneapolis, attending Luther College. I love Luther and am grateful for all the opportunities the social work program has given me over the years. I will be interning with Youth Mentoring at Helping Services for Youth & Families for my final spring semester and…
Being a mentor is as simple as being a friend. Mentoring involves making yourself available to support and advise someone when they need it, delivering that support in a way that makes sense to them, and always keeping that person’s best interests in mind. Mentors come in all shapes and sizes. Take a minute to…
School is starting up across Iowa and school based mentoring in Delaware County is kicking into high gear! Youth in West Delaware, Maquoketa Valley and Edgewood Colesburg School Districts are seeking mentors this year. We hope you will consider mentoring a local youth this year. There are two types of school based mentoring: School-Based Mentoring…
