Thank you for your interest in referring a youth to our mentoring experiences. At this time, we are limiting the number of youth we are accepting for new intakes because of the capacity our waitlists are currently at. We do not feel it would be fair to add more names to an ever-growing list of youth waiting for an indefinite amount of time to be matched. A number of factors influence our ability to match – number of volunteers enrolling, programming capacity in response to opportunities as requested by youth, and the changing landscape of volunteerism in general following the pandemic.
We have undertaken a strategic planning process over the last couple of years to support us in determining how we can best serve the youth in our community with mentors. As we implement our new strategic plan, we hope to increase our capacity for new youth. Our goal remains to be able to match youth enrolled as soon as possible.