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| From Left to Right: Rita Younger, Jan Belmore, Janet Lekson, | Ingrid Henry |
Last Sunday, Kids 'n Kinship received the Bob Dayton Quality Mentoring Award for achievement at the lovely Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota Awards Celebration. Kids 'n Kinship was 1 of only 4 programs in the state to be recognized with an award that night. It was such an honor to receive this award!
This award honors Bob Dayton whose vision led to engaging community leaders in developing the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota (MPM) and a statewide plan to connect all youth in Minnesota with caring quality adult mentors. MPM now supports 140,000 mentoring relationships in Minnesota and is a nation-wide leader in quality mentoring, having instituted the Quality Mentoring Assessment Path (QMAP) tool for mentoring programs to evaluate their process and procedures on national researched-based standards of quality. Kids 'n Kinship executive director, Jan Belmore, served on the QMAP committee to assess these standards as they were being developed. Kids 'n Kinship is an Expert Partner with QMAP, having achieved 100% implementation rating on these best practices and standards.
For more information on MPM go to their website: www.mpmn.org
To learn more about Kids 'n Kinship, the youth mentoring program in Dakota County now celebrating 40 years, go to our website: www.kidsnkinship.org
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