Office of Youth Development

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Become a mentor!

On January 4th, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation designating January as National Mentoring Month, encouraging communities across the country to “give back by mentoring young people who lack positive role models.” National Mentoring Month is an annual effort to focus attention on the need for positive mentors in the lives of youth. Communities across the country are encouraged to recruit mentors, support mentoring programs and celebrate mentors making a difference.

The City of Sacramento Mentoring Program is designed to make mentoring for City Employees even easier. We work with mentoring programs that provide a variety of opportunities for mentoring, from school site tutoring to just hanging out. City Employees may even be eligible for up to 40 hours paid leave per year for mentoring through the City Mentoring Program!

Why wait? Become a mentor. Change a life

Employee Mentoring Program

One of Sacramento’s most important assets is its youth and strategies that promote our youth to become productive citizens are vital to our future. One program being offered as a benefit for City of Sacramento employees is the opportunity to mentor in the public schools in Sacramento and to receive mentoring leave of up to 40 hours annually to participate. This is an opportunity to make a real difference in a child’s life and to volunteer in a structured setting.

The Big Brothers Big Sisters organization released in June 2007 a commissioned study of school based mentoring programs across the nation. The findings indicated that by the end of the first school year, teachers reported improvements in performance, quality of class work, number of assignments turned in, and reduction of serious school infractions such as fighting and suspensions. The mentored students also reported feeling more competent academically, and improved their attendance. The mentored students also reported an additional benefit of having a non-parental adult they looked up to and talked to about their personal problems who cared about what happened to them and influenced the choices they made.

If you would like to serve as a mentor please view our mentoring directory. If you feel you could spare an hour a week to make a difference in the life of a child, give one of these programs a call and find out more!

Mentoring Directory

More on the City Employee Mentoring Program

Application and Tracking Docs

To find out more about the City Mentoring Program, please contact Brit Irby at birby@cityofsacramento.org or 808-8879.