NORTH VALLEY LA COUNTY CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT
an Affiliate of the National CARES Mentoring Movement
OUR HISTORY
The North Valley LA County CARES Mentoring Movement (NVLACC), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization in partnership with the National CARES and began its journey in 2011 with a visit from Susan L. Taylor to the Antelope Valley community (known as the "Forgotten City"). This journey started with a community call to the Faith Based Churches of the need for mentors. The call was answered by Gwendolynne Cole creating the 36th of 58 Affiliate the NVLACC formerly named Antelope Valley CARES Mentoring Movement in the United States.
Our strong voice for supporting and promoting a responsible mentoring initiatives throughout the Northern LA County Valley to recruit, train, and direct mentors by continuing to sound the alarm and raise awareness of the state of emergency of the under resourced children in our community that is growing. These thoughtful and generous men and women volunteers, serve as mentors and role models fostering the recovery and well-being of our community.
NVLACC is partnering and collaborating together with various organization to share responsibility and information that will promote the recruitment and retention of mentors. It will engage in activities that are designed to connect volunteer mentors to local mentoring organizations and provide educational support to local school entities, churches, community based organizations or individual groups of young people for the purpose of strengthening academic competencies, building self esteem and building positive youth development.
Volunteer mentors are provided a 4 hour mentoring training workshop that will educate them on the national standards and guidelines of mentoring to serve the children in various organization committed and dedicated to filling that gap.
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NVLACC mentors will participate in a A New Way Forward - Community Wellness Circle to address the Wellness and Wealth Building Health of our mentors. This intensive workshop and curriculum designed for African-American adults, encouraging participants to help heal their communities through practice of life-sustaining, wellness principles in their own lives, and becoming communicators and trainers of these emotional- and physical-wellness disciplines at the grassroots level.
Facilitator is our sacred calling in our vision, one in which have been chosen to take leadership to help heal Black America. The willingness to undertake this courageous journey as a leader, given their own trauma is commendable. most definitely for sustainability through one of the most rigorous and rewarding processes of any lifetime. We will be here to help and support you along the way, as we grow and heal together.
