MentorMatch Hampton/Willamsburg's mission is to provide role models for foster care and juvenile justice youth to help them transcend their cirmcumstances and become successful at home, in school, business and society.

Description:
MentorMatch Hampton/Williamsburg brings together adult volunteer mentors with foster care and juvenile justice youth for traditional one-one-one mentoring. Each match meets for two hours a week for one year and may participate in countless number of activities. MentorMatch Hampton/Williamsburg provides for the screening, training and supervising during the year of mentoring.

Mentors must be adults (men or women) ages 18 and up who reside in the HamptonRoads/Williamsburg region. Mentees must be youth ages 8-18 who are presently in the foster care and juvenile justice system and reside in the Hampton Roads/Williamsburg region.

MentorMatch Hampton. Two people. Two hours. One year. That's all we ask!

History:
MentorMatch Hampton/Williamsburg began in Richmond In April 2007 from a grant provided by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as a mentoring program designed to provide role models for foster care and juvenile justice boys and girls in the regions where it's parent organization, Lutheran Family Services of Virginia, is located.

Contact people:

Donisha Smith, Intake Coordinator, (phone), (email) Eloise Foster, Staff Liaison, (phone), (email) Philip Day, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (757) 722-0898

Address:

525 Butler Farm Road, Suite 106 Hampton, VA 23666 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.mentormatch.info

Directions:

Take 64 and then Exit 261A. Merge onto Hampton Roads Center Parkway West. Turn right onto Big Bethel Road. Take right onto Thomas Nelson Drive. Pass Thomas Nelson College. Turn right onto Butler Farm Road. Lutheran Family Services offices on left.. . . (more)