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Outline of Learning Goals:  Preamble:  

Introduction to Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection
Cabrini Connections is a small Chicago-based non profit established in 1992 to connect workplace volunteers with inner-city youth as tutors/mentors, advocates and change-agents in the lives of the young people.  Recognizing the struggles each small tutor/mentor program has to establish itself, and the void of leadership in Chicago focused on non-school tutor/mentor programs, the organization created a second program, the Tutor/Mentor Connection, aimed at helping all tutor/mentor programs get the resources they need to succeed in connecting youth and volunteer tutors/mentors.  This web site and several others are part of the strategy that has evolved since 1992.  

The organization recognizes that its strategy is "out of the box" for most people and that with limited resources its not been able to present as clear a definition of goals and actions as is needed.  However, it keeps pursuing this "clarity of mission" goal.  This page represents the "next step".  This table of contents is the outline of a "web book" and "tutor/mentor university" that have yet to be developed.  Each section of this outline represents a body of knowledge that needs to be understood by public leaders as well as tutor/mentor program leaders.  Our first step of fleshing this out is to provide Power Point presentations of some sections.  Over the coming year we will develop similar presentations for each section. Some will develop because researchers, writers and IT people learn from the first presentations the power of our vision and volunteer to help us build the rest of the book.  

Click back to the Tutor/Mentor Institute page for the power points that are already available.  We thank you for visiting and look forward to your feedback and participation.

 Definition of problem

   Existing Research links can be found on the T/MC site to any of the following topics:
   Poverty 
   Education
   Isolation
   Lack of time for key players to connect and converge

    We seek to create strategies and collaborations that focus on work and careers. as the ultimate goal.     This chart illustrates that to work concept.  

    Economic and social divide separates those who could help with those who might help

    Lack of  leadership, lack of consistent attention to this issue

eLearning, Innovation, Collaboration as a Process - 
    T/MC seeks to create a learning and knowledge network, consisting of partners/Hubs from around the world that are already collecting and sharing some of the information that others could use to innovate better solutions in their own community. Read our Theory Of Change.pdf .

    This can lead to identifying Tipping Points, that would be actions which influence the growth of volunteer based tutor/mentor programs in thousands of locations.

Mentoring as a solution
    Mentoring is a form of Service-Learning that can enlarge the number of adults and organizations involved with helping youth move from poverty to careers

Existing research
    Impact on diversity, public health, juvenile and poverty justice, workforce development & civic engagement
    Needs of youth in poverty different than needs of youth in other areas
    Needs of youth with English as second language also different; compounded by poverty
    Lack of resources (volunteers, funding, media attention, technology, etc.)
    Neighborhood Analysis power point
Total Quality Mentoring - this is a concept of constant improvement, borrowed from the business term, Total Quality Management (TQM ). It's used to describe a comprehensive volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in which the long term goal is that youth are starting jobs/careers by their mid-twenties, and that volunteers are the leaders and networkers who help make this possible.

Success Steps Strategy  - actions that support a youth's long-term growth in a Total Quality Mentoring  program. The Cabrini Connection plan.

 

T/MC  Research Model and Findings
     T/MC survey
     T/MC Database - program locator
     T/MC Directory, model programs, Cabrini Connections
     T/MC Jordan-webb.net/tmc survey
     Backward mapping, planning trees, knowledge mapping, group systems (decision support)
T/MC Public Awareness Model and Progress
     Message: Total Quality Mentoring; Career Ladder
     Strategy:  Reach and frequency at a low cost

     Role of leaders - This essay describes actions leaders in business, hospitals, faith groups and universities might take to engage their members in actions that mentor kids from poverty to jobs and career.  Below are essays that show how this might happen in specific industries:
 * Faith group
 * Hospital strategy,
 * University connection,
 
* Legal community

     Public Relations - intended to draw volunteers and donors to programs, using the Program Locator feature
     Media Campaign
     Internet Strategy and use of GIS maps
    
Resource Development
     T/MC Calendar of sequenced Events/Leveraging National Events
     Integration of Kids’ Connection events (and those of other tutor/mentor programs)
      Fund Raising Strategies, such as SunTimes Marovitz  Lend A Hand Program of Chicago Bar Association/Foundation
      Adoption of T/MC strategy by business, Faith group, Hospital strategy, University connection, Legal community

 

Training, Networking and information sharing
     Internet strategy
     Conferences
     Newsletter
     Tutor/Mentor University and Tutor/Mentor Inner-city Leader Corps
     One-on-one consulting
     Collaboration Goals

Strategies for building and sustaining tutor/mentor programs
    Steps for Starting a Tutor/Mentor Program
   
Success Steps Strategy - actions that support a youth's long-term growth in a Total Quality Mentoring  program. 
    The Cabrini Connection plan.

    Operating Principles 
    Annual Planning Calendar

Outcomes and progress
     Organizational History and Tracking System (OHATS) (evaluation of a network such as the Tutor/Mentor Connection)

    Student/Volunteer History and Tracking System (SV-HATS) (evaluation of a single tutor/mentor program)

     Recognition
     Funding success and challenges -  Articles that illustrate challenges faced by non profits in finding consistent funding for constant process improvement.
The Future:  Opportunities, Challenges, Treats
Cabrini Connections history and organizational structure
Credits: profile of key volunteers and organizations that have contributed to Cabrini Connections and T/MC growth