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! 

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!