MentorCorps is a program designed to create mentoring opportunities for at-risk children and adults in the Deep East Texas Region through the use of national service volunteers. MentorCorps, a collaborative project of The Mentoring Coalition, provides 40 part-time AmeriCorps Members each year to serve at partner agencies as either mentors who build relationships directly with clients or mentor coordinators who recruit, manage, and support community volunteers who, in turn, work with clients in need.

AmeriCorps:

• AmeriCorps engages more than 50,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet community needs in education, the environment, public safety, homeland security, and other areas.
   
• Members serve with national nonprofit organizations, as well as with hundreds of smaller community organizations, both secular and faith-based.

The Corporation for National and Community Service:

• AmeriCorps is administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, which also oversees Senior Corps and Learn and Serve America. It is part of USA Freedom Corps, a White House initiative to foster a culture of citizenship, service, and responsibility, and help all Americans answer the President’s Call to Service.

TMC MentorCorps Partners:

Angelina College and Stephen F. Austin State University have partnered with MentorCorps to assist in AmeriCorps Member Recruitment. The following organizations have partnered with MentorCorps to have AmeriCorps Members serve as mentors or mentor coordinators at their agencies:

• Boys & Girls Club of Diboll
• Boys & Girls Club of Lufkin
• GETCAP Head Start
• Goodwill’s YouthWorks! Program
• Goodwill's Employment Services Program
• Lufkin Independent School District
• Nacogdoches Christian Women’s Job Corps
• Nacogdoches Public Library
• Pregnancy Help Center of Lufkin
• SOLID Foundation, Inc.
• X-Change Place

Partner Benefits:

As a TMC MentorCorps partner agency you will receive:

• AmeriCorps Members to build capacity for your program as mentor coordinators or to serve as mentors for participants in your program
• Support to assist in designing and implementing a successful mentoring project
• Training and technical assistance.

What MentorCorps Members Do:

• Serve as Mentors or Mentor Coordinators at local partner agencies
• Serve 900 hours during a 12-month term (approximately 20 hours weekly)
• Attend trainings, national days of service, and community outreach events.
• Participate/create a Service-Learning project.

Member Benefits:

• A $2362.50 Education Award upon completion of service term
• Monthly living allowance of $640
• Presidential Service Award upon completion of service term
• An experience of a lifetime, including extensive training and professional development opportunities

Why Choose National Service with TMC MentorCorps?

By becoming an AmeriCorps member, you can help change the world, one life at a time! TMC MentorCorps is a program of AmeriCorps National Service designed to provide mentoring to children and adults in our community considered at-risk. As an AmeriCorps member, you might be someone’s mentor, or you might help a non-profit mentoring program recruit, support, and manage volunteers. TMC MentorCorps allows you to have a flexible schedule while you serve part-time (900 hours) over 12 months (October through September). While helping those in your community, you are provided with a living allowance and professional development opportunities. After completing your required service you even receive an award to help pay for your education!

Become an AmeriCorps Member

To become an AmeriCorps Member with the TMC MentorCorps project, send completed application to:
 

LaTonia Sanders
Goodwill Industries of Central East Texas
301 Hill Street
Lufkin, TX 75904
 

To learn more about the official selection process contact LaTonia Sanders at MentorCorps@lufkingoodwill.org or (936) 632-8838.