MCCOY

The Alliance of Youth Mentoring Agencies of Central Indiana seeks to encourage mentoring programs to work with one another to share best practices and work in concert to recruit, train, retain, and sustain mentors for Central Indiana's young people.

Along with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana, MCCOY is a convener of the Alliance.

Joining together with one voice will allow us to make the most of limited resources and to bring about better service, greater collaboration, more effective utilization of resources, and ultimately serve more youth with quality mentoring relationships. Over time, our efforts will focus on the following joint efforts:

• Raising public awareness about the value of mentoring
• Recruiting and referring mentors
• Developing new mentoring resources
• Advocating and promoting public policies and legislation that strengthen mentoring
• Providing affordable, accessible training and technical assistance to staff and mentoring
• Collecting and tracking data related to mentors and the youth served by mentors

The Alliance is a working organization focused on action and results. At quarterly meetings, working groups will craft action strategies that all members will be involved in carrying out in order to further the long range goals of the Alliance.

For further information, contact John Brandon at 921-1288.

Member agencies include the following:

100 Black Men of Indianapolis
Aftercare for Indiana through Mentoring
Area Youth Ministry
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana
Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis
C.A.F.E.
Camptown, Inc.
Center for Leadership Development
Children's Bureau of Indianapolis
Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis
College Mentors for Kids
Courage Family Life Center, First Baptist Church of North Indianapolis
Crossroads of America Council, Boy Scouts of America
Faith Teaching Church
Forest Manor Multi Service Center
Girl Scouts of Central Indiana
Girls Inc. of Greater Indianapolis
Great Commission Church of God - Young Men, Inc.
ICAAM
Indiana Youth Group, Inc.
Indianapolis Birthing Project - SisterFriend Project
Indianapolis Urban League
IUPUI Center for Service and Learning
Jameson Camp, Inc.
John H. Boner Community Center
Julian Center
Junior Achievement of Central Indiana
Keenan-Stahl Unit, Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis
LeGore Unit, Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis
Liberty Park Unit, Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis
Marion Superior Court Probation Department - Adult Services Mentor Program
Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center
Minority Health Coalition of Marion County
New Zion Tabernacle Church
OK Program
Password Community Mentoring
Philips Temple C.M.E. Church
Planned Parenthood of Indiana
Raymond Park Unit Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis
St. Vincent Hospitals & Health Services Unity Development Center
Southeast Multi-Service Center
Starfish Initiative
United Way of Central Indiana
Wheeler Mission Ministries
Wheeler-Dowe Unit, Boys & Girls Club of Indianapolis
YWCA of Indianapolis