SMILES Mentoring
The SouthCoast Mentoring Initiative for Learning, Education and Service, Inc.(SMILES) is a 501c3 charitable not-for-profit corporation working with school, business and community partners on a clear mission to effect social change by reducing the high drop out rate in New Bedford and Fall River. SMILES will do this one child at a time by pairing identified at-risk youth with positive adult mentors in our school-based program.SMILES Mentoring
One Sovereign Place, Lower Level
P.O. Box 1712
New Bedford, MA 02741
508-999-9300
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600 SMILES - SouthCoast Mentoring Initiative for Learning, Education and Service, Inc.(SMILES)
- By SMILES Mentoring
- Published 12/18/2007
- Announcements & Press Releases , Education
Throughout October, the SMILES mentoring program conducted an intensive awareness and mentor recruiting campaign aptly dubbed “600 SMILES”. Readers learned first-hand what it is like to be a mentor from local citizens already serving in the program. A few students also shared their thoughts on having a SMILES mentor in their lives. Ultimately, the goal was to prompt you - the readers - to pick up your phone and call the SMILES office and volunteer to become a SMILES mentor and begin spending time with a student in a New Bedford public school.