About the Author

Gail Manza is a social worker and an advocate for children and youth. She is a former CEO of MENTOR, a former senior vice president at United Way of America, and the former executive director of the National Mentoring Partnership. She is a founding chair of the Federal Mentoring Council and its National Mentoring Working Group, a cofounder of 1000 Women for Mentoring, and continues to serve MENTOR as an emeritus fellow. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Susan K. Patrick is a youth development and mentoring consultant, the founder of the Connecticut Mentoring Partnership, and has developed numerous mentoring guides and toolkits. She is the former president of the Governor's Prevention Partnership in Connecticut, a statewide public-private partnership, cochaired by the Governor and a business CEO with a mission is to keep Connecticut's youth safe, successful, and drug free. She lives in Rockport, Massachusetts.