06/25/2024
The school year and our summer session have come to an end. Many of you have learned that the Mentor Center does not have a clear future for next year. Thank you for the words of support and encouragement as well as the stories you have shared about what the Mentor Center has meant to you and your students. Those are our favorite. We wish we had a better answer now, and we hope to have one soon.
When we first walked through the space that has been the Mentor Center in early 2021, it had remnants of the clinic that used to be here-- hospital beds, blood pressure cuffs, PPE. As we cleared out our things this week (we'll need to move anyway, regardless of anything else), it seems that the next person that walks through may find the last vestiges of what was here for the last three and half years-- a cup of markers, a poster about study room rules, a lost UNO card, a mural that states boldly "good things happen here".
This was a place loved and held by children and the caring adults that served them.
We saw magic here, and even if we won't be HERE, the Mentor Center has all the hope that we will be SOMEWHERE. Even if it's just in the stories we cherish. Wherever that is and whatever that looks like, thank you all for magic.
Have a fantastic summer. We are SO GLAD you were here.
