Children from homes shattered by parental absence often suffer emotional trauma that can adversely affect them for the rest of their lives. New Circle Mentoring intercedes by creating mentoring matches for these youth that give them the guidance of a caring adult.
Mentors help mentees to build social connections and support their learning and extracurricular activities. All of which encourage resilience and emotional competence in mentees and therefore reduce the risk factors these youth face.
Launched in Addison County in 2017, New Circle Mentoring provides one-on-one mentoring services to Vermont children from primary school through high school who have been separated from one or more parent/or are in the foster care system. Mentors are carefully recruited, trained, and matched with mentees, and each match is supervised by a Clinical Director, a retired school counselor with decades of experience.
New Circle Mentoring proactively recruits volunteers to become dedicated mentors.