Overview

MENTOR North Carolina is a statewide Affiliate of MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. For more than 25 years, MENTOR has served the mentoring field by providing a public voice; developing and delivering resources to mentoring programs nationwide; and promoting quality for mentoring through evidence-based standards, innovative research and essential tools. MENTOR has developed and supports a national network of Affiliates that are non-partisan, public-private organizations that galvanize local or statewide mentoring movements. As a local Affiliate, MENTOR North Carolina is dedicated to increasing the number of youth in quality mentoring relationships across North Carolina while working to address the systemic barriers that young people face on a daily basis. This includes providing the leadership and infrastructure necessary to support the expansion of quality mentoring relationships across North Carolina and serving as a clearinghouse for training, resources, public awareness and advocacy, providing the critical link between MENTOR’s national efforts and local organizations and programs that foster and support quality mentoring relationships.