I have been a mentoring with Helping Services for five years and have love every minute of it! Getting together with other mentors and mentees is always a highlight. One of my favorite events, the Helping Services’ Youth Mentoring Bowl-a-Thon is right a...

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Yee-Haw! It’s time for The Rootin’ Tootin’ Mentoring Bowl-A-Thon being held at Arrowhead Lanes in Waukon on March 16. The year’s theme is country western. We want to invite ya’all to be part of this rip-roarin’ fun day! This day is downright i...

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Are you someone that thinks that pumpkins are the ultimate happiness? If that is the case, you would have been jubilant at the group Youth Mentoring event held October 13 at Pinter’s Gardens & Pumpkins in Decorah. From the minute the youth and m...

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On Wednesday, October 17 Kathy Schwartzhoff, Mentoring Coordinator and I attended the Winneshiek County Community Foundation celebration to provide an update on the funding provided to the Youth Mentoring program. We were joined by over 25 other organizat...

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In our roles, recruiting mentors is a key piece of having successful mentoring matches. One of our greatest challenges is recruiting male mentors. The number of requests we receive for male role models is far greater than the number of mentor applicants. ...

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