Today I would like to give a big shout out to our Lehigh Valley Mentoring cohort!!This program is fairly new, only starting in March. Since then, Mentoring Specialist Nykea Alvarez-Macey has been working diligently to recruit and train. A little over a week ago, Nykea held the first LV Mentoring In-Service at the Whitehall Township Public Library (a special ‘Thank You’ to them for their support!)
At the In-Service, 9 of the 14 Lehigh Valley Mentors attended. They were given some information on different topics, including: The Importance of Boundaries, Transitional Mentoring, and the Tabor Mentoring Blog. The Mentors engaged in great discussions, asked relevant and interesting questions, and supported each other using experiential examples. Nykea has 5 active matches and 9 Mentors who are in the process of, or are waiting to, be matched. In a show of excitement and support, everybody who is anybody from Tabor Mentoring also attended the In-Service (really it was 3 people who aren’t incredibly special, but it sounded good, right!?!). In attendance was: Dawn Miller, the Director of Suburban County Programs (my boss); Rosaleen Holohan, Mentoring Specialist alongside me in Bucks County (my partner in crime); and of course, myself, Kate McHugh, Mentoring Specialist for the Bucks County Mentoring Program.
Tabor Mentoring is thrilled and excited to welcome all 14 of our new LV Mentors into the fold. Thank you for all you are doing!! It truly takes a special person to be a Mentor. We also want to thank Nykea for working so hard to build and continue to grow the Lehigh Valley Mentoring cohort. If anyone is interested in or knows someone who may be interested in Mentoring in the Lehigh Valley, please contact Nykea at: Nykea.Alvarez-Macey@tabor.org or via cell at 610-739-0524.