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01-06-2008, 11:12 AM
Mentors needed for children who lost parents on 9/11
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/NEWS03/801060358/1019/NEWS03
By HEMA EASLEY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: January 6, 2008)
A national nonprofit that offers services to 9/11 families is looking to recruit young and active men and women in Rockland County to serve as role models for children who lost a parent in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
The Tuesday's Children Mentoring Program pairs these children with trained, adult mentors who offer opportunities, provide guidance, help with coping skills and, most of all, have fun together.
Mentoring candidates are screened and trained by mentoring experts and matched with a child in their area.
"Tuesday's Children definitely helps children in positive ways that were affected by a monumental event that seems distant to much of the general public, but is an event that is remembered daily by those who are most closely affected," said Dan Thompson, a mentor at Tuesday's Children.
The organization was started barely two weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, by Chris Burke, a former employee of global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald. His brother Tom was killed in the collapse of the Twin Towers.
To be accepted, applicants must be 18 or older, commit to a year of mentoring and have a car.
The organization hopes to recruit more mentors than the corresponding number of children so that appropriate matches can be found.
In Rockland, Tuesday's Children is looking for young women to mentor eight girls. Matches are always of the same gender.
In New City specifically, the organization seeks mentors to match with three young boys.
Mentors are required to meet with their charges twice monthly for a one-on-one session. Mentors and children attend sporting events, participate in community activities, talk, do homework together and form a friendship.
Tuesday's Children also offers quarterly group outings, such as to ice skating rinks, museums, bowling and picnics, as well as tickets to such events as New York Mets games, New Jersey Nets games, Broadway shows or the circus.
Reach Hema Easley at heasley@lohud.com or 845-578-2442.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/NEWS03/801060358/1019/NEWS03
By HEMA EASLEY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: January 6, 2008)
A national nonprofit that offers services to 9/11 families is looking to recruit young and active men and women in Rockland County to serve as role models for children who lost a parent in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
The Tuesday's Children Mentoring Program pairs these children with trained, adult mentors who offer opportunities, provide guidance, help with coping skills and, most of all, have fun together.
Mentoring candidates are screened and trained by mentoring experts and matched with a child in their area.
"Tuesday's Children definitely helps children in positive ways that were affected by a monumental event that seems distant to much of the general public, but is an event that is remembered daily by those who are most closely affected," said Dan Thompson, a mentor at Tuesday's Children.
The organization was started barely two weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, by Chris Burke, a former employee of global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald. His brother Tom was killed in the collapse of the Twin Towers.
To be accepted, applicants must be 18 or older, commit to a year of mentoring and have a car.
The organization hopes to recruit more mentors than the corresponding number of children so that appropriate matches can be found.
In Rockland, Tuesday's Children is looking for young women to mentor eight girls. Matches are always of the same gender.
In New City specifically, the organization seeks mentors to match with three young boys.
Mentors are required to meet with their charges twice monthly for a one-on-one session. Mentors and children attend sporting events, participate in community activities, talk, do homework together and form a friendship.
Tuesday's Children also offers quarterly group outings, such as to ice skating rinks, museums, bowling and picnics, as well as tickets to such events as New York Mets games, New Jersey Nets games, Broadway shows or the circus.
Reach Hema Easley at heasley@lohud.com or 845-578-2442.