Community leaders urge area adults to mentor city’s struggling youth | Times Free Press
Participating Nonprofit Groups
100 Black Women of Greater Chattanooga
100 Black Men
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Million Women Mentors
Northside Neighborhood House
On Point
United Way of Greater Chattanooga
Benwood Foundation
Bethlehem Center
Boy Scouts
Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy
City of Chattanooga
Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga
East Chattanooga Improvement
EPB
Front Porch Alliance
Get Veterans Involved
Girl Scouts
Girls Inc.
GrassRoots MidTown
HCDE
Independent Youth Services Foundation, Inc
Jim Wert & Associates
La Paz
Mt.
Go to the Chattanooga and Hamilton County Mentoring Collective web site at www.mentorchatt.org or call Elizabeth Tallman at 423-752-0307.
Nearly 400 local children and teens have signed up for mentoring programs and remain on waitlists because local nonprofit groups, businesses, churches and government programs have been unable to recruit adults willing to help.
The Chattanooga and Hamilton County Mentoring Collective, announced Tuesday to a crowd gathered at Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy, is spearheaded by Elaine Swafford, the executive director of CGLA; Lesley Scearce, the head of the United Way of Greater Chattanooga; and Lurone Jennings, head of the Department for Family and Youth Development for the City of Chattanooga.
The leadership committee behind the effort includes representatives from Girls Inc., the Hamilton County School System, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, La Paz, the Boys and Girls Clubs, the YMCA, YCAP, UNUM, EPB, Baylor School, the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Chattanooga and several area churches. showed that almost the entire country 91 percent of counties did a better job of creating paths to high earnings for children born at the bottom than Hamilton County.
A child from a poor family in Cannon County, Tenn., would grow up to make 9 percent, or $2,440, more at age 26 than they would if they had grown up in the average American county. html += “”;
