10-R018
2010 -- H 7124
Enacted 01/13/10
H O U S E R E S
O L U T I O N
PROCLAIMING THE
MONTH OF JANUARY 2010 TO BE "NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH" IN THE STATE
OF
Introduced By: Representatives Kilmartin, McNamara, Martin, and Baldelli-Hunt
Date Introduced: January 13, 2010
WHEREAS, The Rhode
Island Mentoring Partnership was built on the noble premise that
“when we invest today in
expanding our community's capacity to mentor our youth, we will see
an incredible return in the lives of our children and the
health of our communities for generations
to come”; and
WHEREAS, A non-profit organization, based in Warwick, the Rhode
Island Mentoring
Partnership provides support services to fifty-five
mentoring programs, affecting more than 4,400
children across the state; and
WHEREAS, In addition,
the Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership established and is
directly running highly successful programs in
showing improvement in the reading performance of fifty-three
percent of the enrolled children,
an improvement in the writing performance of fifty-two
percent of the children, an improvement
in mathematics performance of forty-nine percent of the
children, and fewer disciplinary
problems in eighty-two percent of the enrolled children; and
WHEREAS, National
statistics have also shown that children with mentors are more
likely to succeed, with forty-six percent of the mentored
young people less likely to begin using
drugs, twenty-seven percent less likely to begin using
alcohol, fifty-three percent less likely to
skip school, and thirty-three percent less likely to
engage in violence; and
WHEREAS,
Mentoring is a two-way street. Mentors provide time and positive
guidance
to those they help, but in return, they receive personal
satisfaction and fulfillment. The
experience of being a mentor can perhaps be best summed up with
a quote from an unknown
writer, “To the world, you may just be somebody. But to
somebody, you may just be the world”;
now, therefore be it
RESOLVED,
That this House of Representatives of the State of
Providence Plantations
hereby proclaims the Month of January 2010 to be “National Mentoring
Month” in the State of
RESOLVED,
That this House of Representatives hereby urges all
the citizens of the state
to join us in acknowledging and applauding the admirable
efforts of the Rhode Island Mentoring
Partnership and all student
mentors across the state, and calls upon any Rhode Islander who has
an hour to spare each week to become a mentor to a child
in need; and be it further
RESOLVED,
That the Secretary of State be and he hereby is
authorized and directed to
transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to the Rhode
Island Mentoring Partnership.
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