Helping Youth Tutor/Mentor Programs Grow

Below is a map of the central part of Chicago on which I've plotted locations of a few youth tutor and/or mentor programs. I've combined it with a graphic showing Twitter accounts of a few Chicago programs. You can find my list of programs and the map platform I used at this link.

I've posted this to illustrate my 25 year commitment to helping volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow in all high poverty areas of the Chicago region.

Yesterday I included the concept map shown below in an article on the MappingforJustice blog, showing the layers of information that were included in a Chicago tutor/mentor programs directory that we started building in the 1990s and put online in 2004.

Layers of information needed on a program locator - click here

Today I had a short ZOOM meeting with someone from the World Economic Forum in Zurich, Switzerland in which I described the program locator layers and how a platform like this can be used in cities throughout the world.  I also told of my goal of finding developers to help rebuild the Program Locator, as open source technology, so the template could be adopted in more places.

Take a look at yesterday's article and look at other articles on this blog, and the MappingforJustice blog showing uses of maps that could be duplicated in thousands of locations.

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