MENTORING: A KEY SAFETY NET FOR CCF STUDENTS

Chester County Futures offers a unique one-to-one mentoring program for low-income Chester County high school students. We combine individual mentoring with comprehensive after school instructional services and financial support, all tailored to fit the needs of each individual student we serve. Our mentors are dedicated people from all walks of life and every age group who want to make a difference in the life of an underprivileged teenager.

We offer mentors two options for getting involved:

• As a one-to one mentor, you will be matched with a specific 9th or 10th grade student. Mentors usually make, at minimum, a two year commitment to their student.
  Find out more about One-to-One Mentoring

• They can choose to share life experiences through our 'Mentor Talent Bank", perhaps coming into our classroom only once to speak to an entire class of students or to meet individually with a small number of students whose needs suit the topic being presented. Find out more about Talent Bank Mentoring

Mentor Stories

	Attorney, Family Man, His Mentee Earned His College Degree This Year It was the year 2000 when a young teen named Aaron met a man who would change his life forever. A man who would be there for him. Someone to turn to for sage advice. For words of encouragement. For guidance when the road through life turned rocky. The man Aaron met that year was Villanova resident and attorney, David Rosenberg. Read More
	Chester County Futures Board Member, Long Time Mentor, & Hero to Two Local Students John Panizza of Downingtown, PA, spends long work days in a high-power mode as president of the Exton-based GenTerra Corporation. As busy as his life is, he answered the call to serve on the Board of Directors of Chester County Futures, Inc. and signed on as a mentor to two of the disadvantaged students enrolled in CCF’s high school outreach program back in 1999. Read More
	Professor, Daddy, Mentor Mentor Mike Parker's “proudest moment” occurred in May 2005 when the young student he’d been mentoring for three years graduated from high school. He and then 15-year-old Eddie hit it off right from the start when they were first paired up as mentor and mentee under the auspices of Chester County Futures. “My relationship with my student is great,” he says. “He is a very nice and fun young man.” Read More