Mercy Home's Friends First Featured in the Chicago Sun-Times for National Mentoring Month
January is National Mentoring Month, and this week the Chicago Sun-Times spotlighted mentoring programs across the city, including Mercy Home's Friends First program.
Friends First matches young people from Chicago neighborhoods with caring adult volunteers who commit to spending time with them regularly. Mentors and mentees explore the city together, from museums to ballgames to bike rides on the lakefront, and many of those friendships last well into adulthood.
Chicago Foundlings Home is proud to support Friends First. We've seen firsthand how one consistent adult can change a young person's sense of what's possible. (If you missed it, read our earlier post, Mentor Makes a Lifelong Friend.)
Interested in becoming a mentor? Learn more at mercyhome.org/friends-first-mentoring.