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Potential Donors: This page lists agencies that are in need books. Donors decide where they would like to donate and then call the agency directly. (Contact names are listed below)

Relatively new set of encyclopedias (within the last 10 years)
(to be used for GED program)
Magazine subscription to "Family Friendly" magazine (i.e. Parenting magazine, etc.)
CATHOLIC CHARITIES FAMILY CENTER
Contact: Jim Gepperth 244-9915

WPS Creative Therapy Store

Children's books for the classrooms
(Ongoing need)
THE LINDEN SCHOOL
Contact: Angela Obbish 284-9724

LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE, INC.
Mentoring Program Books 5-each
Tom Jackson, "Activities that Teach" ISBN #0-96646-33-3-1
Tom Jackson, "Conducting Group Discussions with Kids" ISBN#09-664633-6-6
Tom Jackson, "Still More Activities that Teach" ISBN#09-664633-1-5-8

Mentoring Program Booklets 5-each
Bowman & Bowman, "Co-piloting" A systematic Mentoring Program or Reaching and Encouraging Young People

  • Handbooks for Elementary
  • Handbooks for High School
  • Alleman Mentoring Scale – This field-tested instrument has been used to measure the amount and quality of mentoring activity. Available from Silverwood Associates, Telephone # (330) 239-1646
  • Laura Anderson "Creating an Effective Youth Mentoring Program: A Technical Assistance Manual"
  • Avani (1998) Mentoring Works: A Peer Helping Program for Middle and High School Students.
  • Avani (1998) Mentoring Works: A Student Workbook
  • Becker (1994) Mentoring High-Risk Kids
  • Davis (1995) Mentor's Guide for Talks My Father Never Had with Me: Helping the Young Black Make Make it to Adulthood
  • Englund, Kanfer, Lennhoff, and Rhodes (1990) A Mentor Manual for Adults Who Work with Pregnant and Parenting Teens
  • Goodlad (1998) Mentoring and Tutoring by Students
  • Keim and Tolliver (1993) Tutoring and Mentoring: Starting a Peer Helping Program in Your Elementary School
  • Richards, Center, Muth, Tanaka, and Yim (1996) Teaming for Tomorrow: A Mentoring Program that Introduces Girls to a World of Career Choices
  • Marc Freedman "The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth and the New Volunteerism"
  • K. Wind Hughes and Linda Wolf "Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood"
  • Donna Berry, Charles Cadwell, and Joe Fehrmann "50 Activities for Coaching/Mentoring"
  • Elements of Effective Mentoring: A Mentor Training Manual for the In-School Mentor-Creative Mentoring
  • Nan Henderson, Bonnie Benard, and Nancy Sharp-Light "Mentoring for Resiliency: Setting Up Programs for Moving Youth from Stressed to Success"
  • Gordon F. Shea "Making the Most of Being Mentored: How to Grow from a Mentoring Relationship"
  • David Clutterbuck and Belle Rose Ragins "Mentoring and Diversity: An International Perspective"
  • Valerie L. Schwiebert "Mentoring: Creating Connected, Empowered Relationships"
  • Marty Brounstein "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies"
  • Howard Hendricks and William Hendricks "As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship" What is Mentoring Video / Mentoring – Student Participant Video Developed and produced by Bergwall Productions (1997)
  • Tuesdays with Morrie: "An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson"
  • Mentoring to Improve Schools – Developed and Produced by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
    LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE
    Contact: Kathy Groner 323-3364

     

    Any books
    OBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
    Contact: Cindy Bowens 774-8193

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