{"id":5570,"date":"2021-11-04T18:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T22:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2021-11-04T18:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T22:19:26","slug":"become-a-bridges-for-kids-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/become-a-bridges-for-kids-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a Bridges for Kids Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #fa4616;\"><b>Do you want to expand a child&#8217;s world by helping them develop positive attitudes and build their self-esteem?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #fa4616;\"><b>YWCA Cortland&#8217;s, Bridges for Kids has an opportunity for you!<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Bridges for Kids program pr<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">ovides one-to-one attention from a trained adult role model, so crucial to building self-esteem and increasing self-confidence and resiliency skills, through two types of mentoring:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"p4\">One-to-one Mentoring: get matched up with a child and spend 2 hours a week doing fun and engaging activities.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p5\">Pen-Pal Mentoring: write one letter per week to a child<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span style=\"color: #fa4616;\"><b>How to become a mentor:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li8\">You must be 18 years old or older<\/li>\n<li class=\"li9\"><span class=\"s3\">Fill out an application <a href=\"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/mentoring.html\">here<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li8\">Receive a background check<\/li>\n<li class=\"li8\">Attend a one-hour mentoring training class<\/li>\n<li class=\"li8\">Meet with your child and their parent(s) via zoom<\/li>\n<li class=\"li10\">Write a letter once a week to the youth you are assigned to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p7\"><b>Contact person:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">Mindy Gardner<\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\">Email<b>: <\/b><a href=\"mailto:Bridges@cortlandywca.org\"><b>bridges@cortlandywca.org<\/b><\/a><span class=\"s3\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\"><span class=\"s3\">Phone: 607-756-9651<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to expand a child&#8217;s world by helping them develop positive attitudes and build their self-esteem? YWCA Cortland&#8217;s, Bridges for Kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-general","category-recent-news","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}