January is officially National Mentoring MonthThe U.S Senate has just passed official recognition of January as the National Mentoring month. Some of the language includes:
"Whereas mentoring is a longstanding tradition in which a dependable, caring adult provides guidance, support, and encouragement to facilitate a young person’s social, emotional, and cognitive development;
Whereas further research on mentoring provides strong evidence that mentoring successfully reduces substance use and abuse, academic failure, and delinquency;
Whereas a month-long celebration of mentoring will encourage more individuals and organizations, including schools, businesses, nonprofit organizations, faith institutions, and foundations, to become engaged in mentoring across the United States; and
Whereas National Mentoring Month will, most significantly, build awareness of mentoring and encourage more people to become mentors and help close the mentoring gap in the United States: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate— (1) designates the month of January 2010 as ‘‘National Mentoring Month’’; (2) recognizes with gratitude the contributions of the millions of caring adults and students who are already volunteering as mentors and encourages more adults and students to volunteer as mentors; and (3) encourages the people of the United States to observe National Mentoring Month with appropriate ceremonies and activities that promote aware- ness of, and volunteer involvement with, youth mentoring."
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A warm thank you to all of our 2009-2010 Mentors!
We would like to thank all those who made it out to our first MSI AHEC Holiday Party! 
