The Kindness of Strangers
Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Volunteerism

Marc Freedman (Author)

9781555425579, Wiley

Hardback, published 4 September 1993

183 pages
26 x 13 x 4 cm, 0.363 kg

The Kindness of Strangers takes a hard, realistic look at mentoring while offering a vivid portrayal of the mentoring movement and how ordinary citizens in cities across America are trying to turn young lives around.

1. A Call to Action
2. Great Expectations
3. Recurring Fervor
4. Birth of a Movement
5. The Benefits of Mentoring
6. The Limits of Mentoring
7. Making the Most of Mentoring
8. Closing the Caring Gap
9. Re-engaging the Middle Class
10. Reinventing Community

Subject Areas: Education [JN]