AmeriCorps Mentoring Advocates

An Update on the AmeriCorps Program at MMP

After fifteen years of service, MMP has made the difficult decision to end the AmeriCorps Advocates of Mentoring program. We honor the alumni that have served over the years, creating and sustaining mentoring relationships across the Commonwealth. We thank the mentoring programs that have hosted members in their communities, providing critical supervision and support to Corps members to implement capacity building projects. We still believe in service and have come to this decision after much reflection on the state of national service and looking forward with a new strategic vision.

MMP enters our thirty-first year (2023) with a new theory of change reaffirming our commitment to building a strong network of relationship-centered organizations. With our improved focus, we work in three pillars to strengthen youth-serving the field: Build Capacity, Institutional Change, and Advocacy and Public Engagement. We look forward to engaging more programs in this critical work and providing even more quality programming to meet our communities’ needs.

AmeriCorps Mentoring Advocates Legacy

For fifteen years, Mass Mentoring Partnership (MMP) placed AmeriCorps members at host sites who dedicated one year of service to building the capacity of mentoring programs throughout the state by implementing research based practices as documented in the Elements of Effective Practices (EEP), a set of benchmarks proven to lead to quality programming. These members, referred to as AmeriCorps Mentoring Advocates (AMA, previously AmeriCorps Ambassadors of Mentoring), focused on four of the EEP standards including: match support, program development, marketing, strategic planning and mentor/mentee recruitment, mentor/mentee or parent training and curriculum development, and program development and start-up. During the Program Year, AMAs assisted mentoring and youth serving organizations in their volunteer mentor recruitment efforts and collaborated with other Corps members to complete statewide community service projects that benefited the field of mentoring in Massachusetts.

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