Serving Pine County
Academic Mentoring/Tutoring
Engaging Hearts to Enrich Lives through Mentoring
The Academic Mentoring Program prepares young people for higher education or the workplace, equipping them to achieve their highest
potential. Benefits of this program category:
- Enrich academic performance and educational commitment
- Provide a foundation and/or
support in basic skills, such as reading, writing, mathematics, science, technology and communication
- Enhance thinking skills, such
as creativity, decision-making, problem-solving and reasoning
- Gives mentees and mentors a sense of belonging in the community
- Provides
support, friendship, and learning assistance through a non-family member inter-generational relationship
- Promotes both
the general well-being of all young people and positive behavior, while concurrently preventing negative behaviors
- Establishes a sense
of belonging and connectedness
- Strengthens communities served
- Reduces rural isolation
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them!"
~Lady Bird Johnson
CONTACT
Kettle Kinship
PO Box 695
Sandstone, MN 55072
Director: Shawn Jansen
shawn@kettlekinship.org
320.245.5339
Webmaster: rachelbaltes@gmail.com
Mission
Kettle Kinship builds brighter futures & stronger communities by engaging caring citizens to enrich lives of local youth through mentoring relationships.