Kansas Mentors

Kansas Mentors: Better communities.Bigger dreams. Brighter futures.


Find a mentoring program near you

Kansas Mentors is an affiliate of Mentor

Kansas Mentors

1000 SW Jackson Ave, Ste. 540
Topeka, KS 66612

Ph: (785) 296-8873
F: (785) 368-6368
www.kansasmentors.org
mentor@kdheks.gov

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About Kansas Mentors
“Providing every young Kansan access to a caring and quality mentor.”


Kansas Mentors is a statewide mentoring partnership that connects existing mentoring programs with each other and serves as a resource center for communities wishing to start a program.  Kansas Mentors works to promote the great mentoring opportunities found throughout the state and to find ways to recruit more Kansans to become part of these efforts. Kansas Mentors began as an initiative under former Governor Kathleen Sebelius and is currently led by Coach Bill Snyder. The organization is served by two councils and has approximately 200 mentoring programs that serve as partners.

All children deserve a caring adult role model in their lives to support and guide them; our mission is to help make this a reality.  


Kansas Mentors Leadership

Leadership Council 
The Council provides recommendations on strategic planning efforts and how state dollars could best be spent to meet the mentoring needs of Kansas.  
Coach Bill Snyder, Council Co-Chair
K-State's Head Football Coach
Dr. Andy Tompkins, Council Co-Chair
Dean of College of Education, PSU
Dick Bond, former Senate President & former Chairman of the Board of Regents Kimberly Edmunds, Vice President & Regional Manager, Cox Communications
Bill Hanna, former President & Vice Chairman of the Board, Koch Industries Joyce Hayhow, Publisher of the Kansas City Business Journal
John D. Montgomery, Editor & Publisher
of Hutchinson News
Joe Reardon, Mayor Unified Government of Wyandotte & Kansas City
Council of Mentors 

Composed of mentoring professionals from across the state, the Council provides guidance on the current issues facing mentoring efforts and the needs of communities wishing to start programs.

Coach Bill Snyder, Council Co-Chair
K-State's Head Football Coach
Kristy McKechnie, Council Co-Chair
Former Director of Development,
SE Kansas Education Service Center
Kerrie Bacon, Kansas Commission 
on Disability Concerns
Dawn DeArmond,
Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters
Tina DeLaRosa, MANA de Topeka Leila Gallagher, YouthFriends Kansas
Laura Kaiser,
Kansas Parent Teacher Association
Kristi Conkle, 
Kansas City Foster Grandparents
Malissa Martin-Wilke,
Communities In Schools of Kansas
Gary Gerhard, Kansas 4-H
Youth Development
Cheryl Semmel,
United School Administrators of Kansas
Janette Meis, Kansas Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)
Jeff Moe, Jayhawk Area Council -
Boy Scouts of America
Mark Nordstrom,
Kansas Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs
Patricia Phillips, Compeer of Topeka Patty Gnefkow, Compeer of Wichita
Cornelia Stevens, Kansas
Children's Service League
Carol Rupe,
Communities In Schools of KS - Wichita


Kansas Mentors is a state affiliate of MENTOR/The National Mentoring Partnership.

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