Our Mission
The California Mentoring Partnership serves the mentoring field by strengthening, sustaining, and expanding quality mentoring throughout the state.
Our Vision
Our vision is for all young people in California to have caring adults in their lives, and to feel safe and supported, so they can go on to live to their fullest potential.
Our Values
CMP values respect, diversity, inclusion, and a youth-centered approach. We pledge to support and complement the mentoring field through transparent collaboration across the state of California.
What We Do
- Improve evidence-based mentoring practices through no- and low-cost technical support, training, and evaluation services to the mentoring field, as well as statewide leadership in addressing critical issues in mentoring, based on research-based best practices.
- Unify and raise the visibility of the statewide mentoring community via outreach to regional and interest-based coalitions, CMP workgroups, online platforms, public awareness drives, and state gatherings that educate and inspire.
- Connect potential mentors and mentees to appropriate mentoring programs, and provide technological tools and support for efficient and effective screening and tracking of volunteers as well as a quality virtual mentoring technology platform (via partnership with Be A Mentor, Inc.)
- Advance a California-driven research agenda that demonstrates the benefits of mentoring and ensures that program practices are informed by research.
- Cultivate the resources and infrastructures necessary to empower a statewide mentoring initiative, via the development of philanthropic relationships, strategic partnerships, regional coalitions, and public advocacy efforts.
