European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Michel Marriott new York times mentoring surge f or at least part of a Day Tacuma Russell will escape the somber shambles of his struggling neighbourhood in the Roxbury Section of Boston. To celebrate the boys 14th birthday a Boston University Sophomore will drive him two hours along interstate 90 to an amusement Park where the two plan to enjoy roller coaster rides and Blue Clouds of Cotton Candy. The College s t Uden to James Spearman Stewart is not related to Tacuma. Through a joint program of the Boston Public school system and his University for which Stewart volunteered he was assigned to be Tacuma s Mentor. For the last nine months Stewart has been involved Wilh the boy in Hopes of improving life for Tacuma whose Mother was 16 when he was born a we All have doubts about where we want to go and How weve going to get there Quot said Stewart. ,. A a a the 190qs saw an enormous surge in the n umber of programs similar to the one that regularly brings Stewart and Tacuma together. In recent years the idea of directly contributing to a youngsters chances of Success has found great Appeal among educators in he United states business leaders and others who Are increasingly frustrated with american bureaucracies that appear too sluggish to offer much help. Across the United states Mentor programs aim to match adults with Young people who May need help in school in making career decisions or just in coping with the complexities of life a. A. There Are mentors who Are corporate executives College students journalists retired nuns and electrical workers. Some programs link mentors to Young people who Are in trouble with the juvenile Justice system others match adults with College students. There Are even mentors for mentors. A they Are springing up every Day popping up like daisies in the Meadow Quot Michael a. Baffin president of Public private ventures a youth advocate group said of the crop of new programs. A much of this is out of desperation. People Are looking for something that makes . Lisa Nehus a project coordinator for the National Media outreach Center in Pittsburgh has been trying for the last five months to establish a National network of Mentor programs Quot there is really no Way of knowing How Many programs there Are out there,1 she said estimating there arc a thousand and  so far Nehus said she has 126 Mentor program contacts and expects nearly 500 More by the end of next year. Shayne Schneider founder and president of mentors inc., a private nonprofit group in Washington said if the last decade s growth of Mentor programs was charted i adults offer students a special boost not Philip m. Butterfield left a vice president at Citicorp in Manhattan is s Mentor to student Jeffrey Parker. Would appear As a sweeping upward curve a there were twice As Many programs last year and twice As Many programs the year before and the year before Quot she said. Quot it s been a phenomenon mostly of the late 80s.&Quot with roots firmly planted in volunteerism Mentor programs appear to have ascended to president Bush a Quot thousand Points of Light a their supporters say. Carol Faroe a youth coordinator for mentors inc., proudly Points out that Barbara Bush was chairperson for her group s first graduation banquet last month Only in their broadest outlines do these new Mentor programs resemble their 85-year-old ancestor big Brothers big Sisters of America Many experts agree. Mentor programs particularly those spawned on College campuses and corporate offices concentrate less on creating surrogate relatives and More on offering Friendly and trusted advisers. Many programs Are designed to help poor Black and hispanic students educators and social scientists say primarily because minority youths generally face greater risk of being locked out of opportunities. Several Mentor programs Are being used to help attract Black and hispanic students to College and then help them once they enter. Program organizers however Are Quick to add that much of America s youth regardless of color could Benefit from mentoring in an Era of mounting numbers of single Parent households and Latch key children and schools overburdened with crime violence and drugs. Quot this is not rocket science that we Are talking about Here Quot said Brooke Beaird director of Campus partners in learning a Mentor program operating at t4 colleges across the country Quot kids need warm adult relationships to give them a lift it is not very  but within what some supporters Coll Quot the mentoring movement Quot there is considerable disagreement about precisely what should constitute a Mentor relationship and whether such relationships can be fostered on a mass scale. Some critics have likened the difficulty of successfully pairing mentors with Young people usually of vastly different backgrounds to Blind dating in some cases administrators of Mentor programs believe Mentor and youngster should be of the same race or ethnic group. Al the University of Washington in Seattle for instance officials say they have had great Success with Matching University graduates who Are american Indian with freshmen who Are Indian Quot it s one of the first things to do unless the student says no Quot said Bill Baker the University s vice president of minority affairs. Quot through that same experience they know about the problems of  Quot it has much More to do with a Mentor s sense of being outgoing his sense of patience Quot said Grossman chief of the new England medical Center in Boston. The Commonwealth fund a National philanthropy based in new York that operates career beginnings in 16 cities around the country recently commissioned a Louis Harris study of program participants. In a Sample of 4p&tfeen-agers across the country the study found that 57 percent of them said their mentors helped them gel along better with teachers 59 percent said their grades improved and 53 percent said their mentors helped them resist illegal drugs. Public private ventures a Philadelphia based non profit group that conducts and researches programs for youths with disadvantages is beginning a More extensive $4 million study of mentoring programs this summer. Its officials said it will be the first comprehensive examination of How effective mentoring is when used on a Large scale. For years relationships based on nurturing Between teachers and students supervisors and their charges a Between those who know and those who do not a have occurred naturally without outside intervention. The attempt to create such relationships experts and mentors say is at the Center of the new popularity of Mentor programs. Stripes classified your. 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