This document is a "strategic planning template" that any hospital could use as a starting point for adopting this strategy and becoming a real Tutor/Mentor Hospital Connection.
New Models in Open Source Economic Development-Tutor/Mentor Hospital Connection (T/MHC)
By Daniel F. Bassill, President and Founder, Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
By Daniel F. Bassill, President and Founder, Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
Hospitals are anchor institutions in high poverty areas and have great potential to bring together community stakeholders to support the growth of volunteer-based youth tutoring, mentoring and learning programs that help lower costs of poverty and lead more youth through school and into college, careers and adult lives free of poverty, including careers in health care.
This document is a "strategic planning template" that any hospital could use as a starting point for adopting this strategy and becoming a real Tutor/Mentor Hospital Connection.
This document is a "strategic planning template" that any hospital could use as a starting point for adopting this strategy and becoming a real Tutor/Mentor Hospital Connection.
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Author, Daniel F. Bassill, D.H.L., President & Founder, Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, has been leading a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in Chicago since 1974. Today's article focuses on the questions he has been asking in his own on-going efforts to help Chicago youth benefit from well-organized, long-term, tutoring/mentoring programs.
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More About The Tutor/Mentor Connection: The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) was created in 1993 to help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow in high poverty neighborhoods of Chicago. It's growth was born out of learning over the previous 18 year, from leading a single volunteer-based tutor/mentor program, from networking with leaders of other programs, and from a full time job building retail advertising for the giant Montgomery Ward retail store corporation in Chicago. T/MC operated as part of a local-global strategy of a non profit tutor/mentor program, also started in 1993. In 2011 I created the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC to continue to support the T/MC in Chicago after the board of the founding organization voted to discontinue support for the strategy.
Over the past 20 year's I've often met with people who wanted to build programs to help youth in their neighborhoods. After guiding some through the many sections of the Tutor/Mentor Connection web sites, some would exclaim “That's exactly what I've been trying to say!” I then would say, “As you read some of my ideas, try crossing out my name, and put in your name. Cross out Chicago, and put in your neighborhood. See if it fits. If it does, use it. Don't try to reinvent the wheel.”
Thus, as I share this “strategy graphic” and other ideas I encourage you to voice the words; use the graphic in your own communication and leadership. See if it fits. As you do this, you'll begin to find ways to improve upon it, using the talents and resources available to you and your own network.
Over the past 20 year's I've often met with people who wanted to build programs to help youth in their neighborhoods. After guiding some through the many sections of the Tutor/Mentor Connection web sites, some would exclaim “That's exactly what I've been trying to say!” I then would say, “As you read some of my ideas, try crossing out my name, and put in your name. Cross out Chicago, and put in your neighborhood. See if it fits. If it does, use it. Don't try to reinvent the wheel.”
Thus, as I share this “strategy graphic” and other ideas I encourage you to voice the words; use the graphic in your own communication and leadership. See if it fits. As you do this, you'll begin to find ways to improve upon it, using the talents and resources available to you and your own network.
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