News and Updates 

Please be sure to check out our updated calendar of events to find statewide mentoring meetings, trainings and activities in your local community! 

2010 Excellence in Mentoring Award Recipients

In honor of National Mentoring Month, the Iowa Mentoring Partnership, the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service and the Office of Governor Culver were pleased to recognize Iowa's most outstanding mentors through the first annual Excellence in Mentoring Award.

Held in conjunction with Mentoring Day on the Hill at the Iowa State Capitol, the Excellence in Mentoring Award ceremony highlighted mentoring champion, Representative Elesha Gayman, as a featured guest and speaker. 

Representative Gayman spoke about the mentors in her own life and then presented the inagural award to Nancy Anderson (GRIP Mentoring, Ames), Linda Cox (GRIP Mentoring, Boone), Judy Davis (Everybody Wins! Iowa, Des Moines) and Susam Lammers (Big Brothers Big Sisters of Muscatine County, Muscatine).

The Iowa Mentoring Partnership would like to extend a sincere congratulations to the first recipients of the Excellence in Mentoring Award! 

Nominations for the 2011 award will be available in the fall of 2010!

Iowa Mentoring Month: A Success! 

The Iowa Mentoring Partnership and the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service would like to sincerely thank the certified mentoring programs in Iowa that helped to make January of 2010 our most successful National Mentoring Month to date! 

The amount of local press and media coverage that local mentoring programs received throughout the month, combined with Mentoring Day on the Hill and the Excellence in Mentoring Award ceremony at the state capitol, successfully returned the spotlight to the mentoring field and highlighted the importance of matching a caring adult and positive role model with our youngest Iowans in need.

We hope all mentoring programs were able to celebrate the wonderful work of their mentors throughout the month.  Congratulations on a job well done!

My Prevention Community Highlights Mentoring

The My Prevention Community website features a mentoring page that includes a networking group, numerous free mentoring fact sheets, publications and resources, a mentoring marketplace and free online trainings for those in the mentoring field. 

While the website also features a number of resources for those in similar fields of prevention, the IMP is pleased that mentoring is beginning to receive more recognition as a preventative strategy for children and youth!