Match of the Month for August: Lisa Jacques and Heather

For the month of August, we are so pleased to honor Lisa Jacques and her mentee, Heather, for match of the month. On July 12th, this pair celebrated their first anniversary of being matched!

Congratulations!!!

Having benefited from mentors in her own life and seeing our program’s recruitment ad in a Fletcher Allen newsletter, Lisa decided to apply to be a mentor with Spectrum. With two teenage daughters of her own as well as having gone through her own struggles as a young person, Lisa felt uniquely qualified to provide guidance to another young woman.
Heather was working with another Spectrum program when she learned about the mentoring program. She hoped to be matched with someone fun who liked the things that she liked—swimming, movies, bowling and animals. Being a fairly active young person, she was a good match with Lisa.
Since being matched, Lisa and Heather have enjoyed going out to eat together, having their nails done, visiting pet stores, swimming and seeing movies. Heather has even begun taking classes to become a veterinary assistant. She says of Lisa, “we have things in common that we like to do.” Lisa enjoys Heather’s chattiness when they spend time together.

CONGRATULATIONS again on being matched for one year!

2nd Annual Mentoring Beach Party

Sorry it's taken me a couple of days to get this in the blog, but I've been so busy fielding phone calls and emails from mentors telling me how much they enjoyed the beach party on Friday. It's been so great to hear such positive reactions to the event. Alot of the credit should go to both Mark Redmond (Spectrum Ex. Dir.) and to Joan White (Dev. Dir.) for their ideas on how to bring excitement to the event in ways that would appeal to young and old alike. Having the event catered made the night stress-free for those of us putting it on and left us to simply enjoy the time with the mentors and mentees. Sugar Snap provided a wonderful spread of sandwiches and salads which allowed some of the folks there to try some new foods.

The organized games were a lot of fun, too. The water balloon toss was very exciting and a little wet. Congratulations to Brian and Simon on thier win of that event. Sally and Tabby won Spectrum's version of Match Game which was an interesting look into how well our matches know each other. Congratulations to this pair as well.

Thanks to all of you who attended and we missed those who were not able to attend. I'm really looking forward to planning next year's event!

Check Out Mark's Blog on Mentoring

http://spectrumyouthandfamilyservicesblog.blogspot.com/