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About Us
Program Goals
Mountain Mentors matches teenagers with adult mentor primarily for strengthening the teens’ positive goals and choices. Mountain Mentors values physical, mental, relational, and spiritual health for coping with challenges faced by our community’s youth in peer relationships, schools, losses, and family stresses. The program actively promotes these positive values through the mentors’ role-modeling, team work, and a variety of planned activities. Whether talking about the stresses of adolescence or backpacking in New Hampshire, the teens and mentors seek these values in ways both safe and fun.
Mission
Mountain Mentors, a non-profit 501 (c ) 3 agency, is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. We seek to follow Christ’s example of personal involvement with individuals who are hurting or in need. Specifically, we are committed to impacting the lives of challenged or at-risk youth in our community through one-on–one mentoring. Mountain Mentors believes that teens have physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Therefore, we strive to address these through role modeling, friendship, skills, and learning
History
Mountain Mentors is the brainchild of the Reverend Everett C. Mills. Reverend Mills initiated the program in 1984 as a non-profit 501(C) organization dedicated to assisting at-risk youth in the greater Toledo community. Prior to 1984, Reverend Mills ran a program, “Basement Saints”, out of his United Methodist Church in Hoytville, Ohio. This original program was viewed as an alternative social scheme for the local youth who were otherwise left without safe, friendly gathering place. He began taking members of this youth group to the White Mountains in his home state of New Hampshire. It was during these trips that he envisioned the one-on-one mentoring that Mountain Mentors incorporates today.
Mountain Mentors was founded in affiliation with the United Methodist Church through the former Euclid U.M. Church. In its first decade, the Lucas County Juvenile Court assigned about 125 students ages 12 to 18 to Mountain Mentors. Andy Devine, then a Lucas County Juvenile judge, credited Rev. Mills’ dedication and persistence for this beginning.
