Hello!
I hope you are doing well! I am the Director of Mentorship at HEARO (Health Educators and Advocates Reaching Out), and we are currently recruiting mentors for our 2025-2026 cycle. We are an organization committed to bridging the resource gap between the community and technical colleges and universities in Washington State.
Our program is a mentorship program where community college students from various disciplines are paired with career professionals, graduate students, and undergraduates nearing graduation (within 1-2 years of receiving their undergraduate degree). Mentors assist mentees with their professional development, developing their academic path, and getting a viewpoint on the fields they are interested in.
Mentors will be tasked with meeting one on one with their mentee, providing advice and empathy, assisting in resource finding (HEARO has a robust resource bank and makes this task easy), and communicating with their mentee throughout the remainder of the academic year.
There are countless benefits we offer to HEARO mentors including letters of recommendation, networking opportunities, advanced mentorship and leadership training, and a state-wide community of amazing people. There is also the personal satisfaction that comes with assisting others!
If students are interested in becoming a mentor, the application info is found here. Please forward this to your graduate, undergraduate students, and employees alike! We welcome all applications (STEM, humanities, performance, communications, etc). You can also view our website at the link below!
We ask that mentors have their applications in by November 20th, 2024 but we welcome applications after that date, on a rolling basis. However, we encourage mentors to apply by the above date to maximize their time with their mentees.
If students have questions, please direct them to me or to hearo.infoapp@gmail.com.
Best,
Kyra Shelton
Director of Mentorship @ HEARO