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(T/MHC)
This is one of hundreds of essays and articles created since 1993 by Daniel F. Bassill, D.H.L.,
when the Tutor/Mentor Connection was launched in Chicago. These articles seek to inspire others
to provide leadership that supports the growth and constant improvement of youth serving
organizations reaching youth in high poverty areas of Chicago and other cities.
Since 2011 the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Connection has been part of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC. In
the rest of this presentation when we use the Tutor/Mentor Connection name we're describing a
strategy we piloted in Chicago that we want others to duplicate in other places (even Chicago).
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Tutor/Mentor Hospital Connection (T/MHC)
Hospitals are anchor institutions in
many high poverty neighborhoods.
They often are the largest employer.
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This concept map is another way to visualize what's
needed to help kids through school into adult lives.
Note role
of volunteers View at http://tinyurl.com/TMI-K-CareerMentoring
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T/MHC Core Values
We believe in the inherent worth of all children.
Children are literally our future, but economically
disadvantaged children, with limited connections to
the many jobs and careers available beyond poverty
areas, cannot hope to flourish personally or
professionally in the future without direct personal
investment from caring adults.
Better support for youth and schools in More youth stay in school, are safe in non-
more neighborhoods. school hours, graduate, and move to careers
Community Wealth grows in all high Better Programs in more Places for
poverty neighborhoods. more age groups
Actions that increase the flow of Actions that increase the flow of
resources to each program resources to each neighborhood
Building a network of
Chicago Building a network of
community-wealth innovators
tutor/mentor leaders &
& Supporters
Supporters
Advertising, Invitation Anchor
Bringing people together Advertising, Invitation
institutions can Bringing People Together
Knowledge Base
Database of support this Knowledge Base
Stakeholders
process in every Database of
Stakeholders
WHO Hosts & high poverty
leads this
process? neighborhood,
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T/MHC Strategic Goal #1
Build a learning organization.
Understand the opportunity for hospitals
and universities in Chicago and other
cities to benefit from neighborhood
mentoring-to-career programs and to
contribute to the growth and success of
these programs.
"Good education predicts good health, and disparities in health and in educational
achievement are closely linked," writes Nicholas Freudenberg and Jessica Ruglis,
in an article posted at http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/oct/07_0063.htm
The authors write "If medical researchers were to discover an elixir that could
increase life expectancy, reduce the burden of illness, delay the consequences of
aging, decrease risky health behavior, and shrink disparities in health, we would
celebrate such a remarkable discovery. Robust epidemiological evidence suggests
that education is such an elixir. Yet, health professionals rarely identified improving
school graduation rates as a major public health objective, nor have they
systematically examined their role in achieving this objective."
Mt.. Sinai
University of
Chicago
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T/MHC Will use maps in planning
and communications
• Maps show location of different
hospitals in Chicago region
Student communicators
will tell stories of these
programs and help draw
needed operating
This map shows the Woodlawn area near
University of Chicago Hospital. Created using
resources to each of them.
Tutor/Mentor Program Locator (while only
viewable as an archive it is a template for
creating new map-based directories).
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The Tutor/Mentor Hospital Connection will unite all
stakeholders around actions that help youth move to careers.
Education
Health Care
College of
Liberal Arts Sciences
The TMHC-link will
connect various
Law,
International initiatives that already Engineering
Studies exist at a hospital, and
at local universities, in a
shared information &
action network.
Non profit studies Business
Student
Tutor/Mentor
Connection teams
learn to share
neighborhood
information on
web portals that
make this
information
available to others
throughout the
city, state and
county.
This is
www.tutormentorexchange.net
Hospital Tutor/Mentor
Professionals Programs
-Volunteers
T/MHC
Hospital T/MC
Programs
Tutor/ Mentor Advertising,
Institute, LLC PR, Community
Fundraising Wealth
Economic Community
Development wealth
partners building