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competence and mastery.
“Let’s do it!” said Lois Manookian, who was sitting in the crowd that night. Thus were the seeds sown of the Starfish Mentoring Program, now in its fourth year in the county.
A small committee formed, consisting of Tole and Manookian, Margaret and Sid Gottlieb, Linda Dietel, Jan Makela, Ellen Neill-Dore, Bob and Virginia Scott, and Mary O’Meara, which laid the groundwork for the program we have today. Out of that committee emerged the executive committee, Tole, Manookian, Neill-Dore, Margaret Gottlieb, O’Meara and later, Susan Jones, who have been designing and implementing a program which they hope will continue for many years.
In the process a key ingredient has been the logistical and financial support of Headwaters, who recently committed to ongoing support for Starfish which enabled the hiring of Ellen Neill-Dore as Program Coordinator.
The first training session for 13 newly recruited adult volunteers was held in the fall of 1997. The training included information about communi
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