{"id":138048,"date":"2023-08-07T09:31:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=138048"},"modified":"2023-08-07T09:38:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:38:57","slug":"seedling-mentors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/seedling-mentors\/","title":{"rendered":"Seedling Mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Seedling\u2019s mission is to mitigate the impact of parental incarceration on children in Central Texas through school-based mentoring. When a child loses a parent to incarceration, they lose possibly the most significant person in their life. As a result they can face significant risk factors that can make it difficult to succeed in school.<\/span><\/div>\n
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As a volunteer mentor, I (Chanelle Shackelford) visited the school and had lunch on a regular basis with the student I was matched with. Through my rewarding experience, I can say this organization supports our values of community, compassion, and transformation. Seedling believes in the promise of every child: the promise of an education, the promise of a future, and the promise of all they can contribute to society.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Seedling recruits volunteers from the community, matches them with eligible children and offers ongoing support to both children and mentors. The mentors provide stable, long-term relationships for the students that can help them develop and maintain positive attitudes towards school.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Since 2006, Seedling\u2019s Mentor <\/span>Program has served over 2500 students, with a presence at one time or another on 150+ campuses in 11 districts and 16 charter schools in Austin and Central Texas.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Learn more about Seedling <\/span>and how to help here:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.seedlingmentors.org<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seedling\u2019s mission is to mitigate the impact of parental incarceration on children in Central Texas through school-based mentoring. When a child loses a parent to incarceration, they lose possibly the most significant person in their life. As a result they can face significant risk factors that can make it difficult to succeed in school. \u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138054,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138048\/revisions\/138054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}