You can donate any amount! No amount is too small and each dollar will go towards supporting mentoring in the Gunnison and Hinsdale Counties. Thank you for your contribution!
Please join us on April 18th for a wonderful training. Beginning at 5:30pm at the Partners Office, Lealyn Poponi, a senior partner and the Nurturing Parent educator for our county, will be providing a training sharing some of the parenting skills (and these are great mentoring skills) she teaches in her NPP classes.
This training is unique because we are inviting Parents and Junior Partners too! Parents and Senior Partners will work with Lealyn while Junior Partners experience adventure with Laura from Mountain Roots.
Here is how Lealyn describes this opportunity.
Lealyn Poponi, coordinator of the Nurturing Parenting Program (NPP) for Gunnison County, has been a Senior Partner matched with her JP going on 6 years. She is excited to share with you some of the techniques, philosophies and values from NPP that have helped her with the challenging (yet very rewarding!) task of mentoring youth. This workshop will include lessons and activites on the following 3 topics as well as take home worksheets and a certificate of completion.
- Setting Ground Rules: Learn to discuss potential problems and issues before they arise and how to get your JP to value the guildlines you’d like them to follow
- Communicating With Respect: Learn how to deal with conflict, not only to avoid hurt feelings but so you can model appropriate communication techniques for your JP
- Building Self Worth in Children: Learn how to give your JP the positive personal power they need to make good choices in life and to help them feel valued and loved
This is all really great stuff. And with parents there, this will be an incredible experience for everyone!
Join us for an incredible adventure at Hartmam’s Rocks. We will enjoy learning outdoor skills, play in relays, scavenger hunts, and more. Please join us– April 14th.
Mar 272012
This is a totally rad video put together by our Senior Partner Evan. He and his JP enjoyed the Snow Cat Day up at Crested Butte Mountain Resort. That is right–CBMR allowed several of Partner’s partnerships to drive their cats!
What a cool experience!
What would current senior partners tell you to get you to become a mentor with Partners?
It is very rewarding, it’s the only volunteer experience I’ve had where I’ve truly felt I’ve helped improve someone else’s life
~Current Senior Partner, Abbey Kuhns
Partners give you the opportunity to give back to your community.
~Current Senior Partner, Danielle Sutherland
It’s fun, it’s rewarding, it’s challenging–you learn so much and you truly make a difference.
~Current Senior Partner
We recently gathered current senior partners and asked them a series of questions. We wanted to make sure our senior partners were getting what they wanted and expected from our program. Seems like they did.
100% of our senior partners rated their experience with mentoring at Partners a 9 or 10 out of 10!
That is pretty cool. They mentioned that hey have gained a lot, such as;
- Fun in the community
- Personal insights & satisfaction of being there for someone else
- learning lots of patience
- giving back to community
- Parental perspective
- Good trainings
- Appreciation
- and more!
There were suggested tag lines including:
Want to discover Gunnison? Join Partners!
Get beyond yourself
It’s as much fun for you as it is for them
Which one do you like best? Do you have one you wish to share? Please post it on our Facebook page.
And if you or someone you know would make a great mentor–we have 30 kids waiting and wanting someone like you. Click on the word ‘inquiry’ below and begin the process.
It begins with your inquiry.
