Mentoring is a deeply rewarding experience, offering the unique opportunity to positively impact a young person’s life. Many youth in Cochise County face significant challenges such as growing up in single-parent homes, foster or group care, or dealing with parental incarceration. At Mentoring Cochise Kids, you can provide these youth with vital guidance, support, and positive role modeling to help them navigate life’s obstacles and build brighter futures.
To become a mentor with Mentoring Cochise Kids, applicants must meet the following criteria:
When you become a mentor, your responsibilities include:
We’ve designed a clear, step-by-step process to guide you through becoming a mentor:
1. Review Information
Familiarize yourself with all program details and requirements available on this website to understand fully what mentoring involves.
2. Submit Your Application
Complete and submit the Mentoring Cochise Kids Application, providing the names of four references.
3. Personal Interview
Once your application is reviewed, a staff member will contact you to schedule a personal interview to discuss your fit for the mentorship role.
4. Attend Orientation & Training
You will be invited to participate in a required orientation and training session. Private meetings can be arranged if you cannot attend the scheduled sessions.
5. Sign Required Forms
After your interview, you’ll complete and sign necessary forms to finalize your participation.
6. Mentor Matching
If accepted, you’ll be matched with two children eager for a mentor, officially beginning your impactful mentorship journey!
Mentoring Cochise Kids provides mentors for kids ages 5–17 to build lasting, positive relationships. Most mentoring happens right at the school through simple but meaningful activities like games, crafts, and life skill building. Once a month, we host a fun off-campus outing to deepen those connections. Our goal is to provide support, encouragement, and guidance that sticks with kids long after the program ends.
We recruit mentors from various organizations and schools around the community. The mentors are matched with kids through a process called best-fit match. This means that several areas are looked at to make sure that the child is matched with a mentor who has the same interests. This also means that a child is not put at the bottom of the list, so regardless of how many kids we have waiting there is no beginning and end.
Our mentors go through a screening process that includes: driver’s checks, background checks, a fingerprint check, an interview and several references. Mentors must also keep a current driver’s license and insurance.
The mentor is there to be a friend and confident for your child. They are not there to be a parent or to discipline the mentee (child). They are there to help with homework, if needed, take them on special outings, and just be a friend.
The mentor signs a contract to spend an average of 2 hours a week for one year. At the end of one year, the mentor and mentee may choose to become official Alumni and continue until the mentee turns 18.
Yes. The mentor will meet with the mentor coordinator, parent(s) and the child to talk and see how they get along. After this meeting, a mentor coordinator will talk with both parties and see if they are in agreement. It is only after you give your permission and sign the match paperwork that their match is official.
At the time of the match, you will be given the mentor coordinator’s name and phone number. If at any time you have questions, concerns or comments, please call them. If they cannot assist you, they will provide you with the name and number of the Executive Director.
We’re excited about the possibility of partnering with you to make a meaningful difference in the lives of young people in Cochise County. Fill out your application today and take the first step on this rewarding journey!
For assistance, please contact us at:
Email: courtneyjodesoto@gmail.com
Mail: P.O. Box 222, Saint David, AZ 85630
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