Tutor/Mentor Connection Update: follow up to Girl Gang story

[Daniel Bassill]

Tutor/Mentor Connection NEWS UPDATE
Linking ideas, programs and people to help inner city kids.  A Program of 
Cabrini Connections.

On Friday, April 30 the front page headline of the Chicago Sun Times was 
"Girl Gang Terrorizes South Side School".  A full page story told about 
the girl gang and how they had attacked a student in a classroom, right in 
front of a teacher.  However, the article did not tell the REST OF THE 
STORY, about how the neighborhood has high levels of poverty, many poorly 
performing schools and few non-school tutoring/mentoring programs that 
might offer positive alternatives to involvement in gangs.

Thanks to the help of volunteers, the T/MC is able to show where this 
story took place, illustrate the connection between gang involvement, 
youth violence and poor schools, and point potential volunteers and donors 
to organizations offering various forms of tutoring and/or mentoring in 
this area. You can see that map at
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/Partner/CC/Program_Locator/default.asp

Uses of GIS maps as part of an ongoing public awareness campaign intended 
to connect volunteers and donors with tutor/mentor programs throughout the 
Chicago region will be concept discussed during the  May 17 and 18 
Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago.
See the entire conference agenda at:
http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com
 

If you cannot come to Chicago, you can participate in the Leadership 
eConference Overlay, May 14 and 19
To learn about some of the workshops being offered via the Internet, visit 
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/Partner/CC/Presentations/Leadership_Conference/e-conference%20agenda.htm

The Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference is made possible by the volunteer 
contributions of more than 50 people who are offering workshops at Daley 
College in Chicago and via the Internet, as well as others who create GIS 
maps, and supply the technology that makes e-conferencing possible at a 
minimal cost.  Major donors are The John & Frances Beck Foundation and the 
Chicago Public Schools.

If you would like to attend the conference, but need a reduced rate or 
scholarship (FREE), please contact the Tutor/Mentor Connection at 
tutormentor2 at earthlink.net

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