School year Tutoring/Mentoring Program

The central focus of ConnectiKids programming is the Tutoring/Mentoring Program, which has evolved into a national model for public/private partnerships.  It represents a unique collaboration of state governments, major corporations, non-profit organizations, religious institutions and urban/suburban parents and volunteers. 

The Tutoring/Mentoring Program is for children in grades 1-6 and focuses on reading and writing, utilizing educational frameworks currently being used in Hartford Public Schools.  On days that students attend tutoring/mentoring, they are transported by bus directly to the tutoring site upon dismissal from school.  Sponsoring host sites include:  Aetna, Asylum Hill Boys & Girls Club, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Saint Joseph College, The Hartford, Northwest Catholic High School, Trinity College and four State Departments located on 470 Capitol Avenue.  Once they arrive at the site, they are matched with their tutor/mentor, given a snack, and proceed to focus their 75 minute session on uninterrupted life sharing, reading, writing and homework support with their individual tutor with whom they are matched the entire program year. 

Through a generous grant from the Greater Hartford Literacy Council’s Books at Home Initiative, approximately 350 books are available weekly at each site to be used by students as part of the successful literacy curriculum.  Students are also able to select and take home up to 15 story books for their personal libraries.  At the conclusion of tutoring, students are transported by bus to their designated neighborhood stop, accompanied by program staff. 

Sponsors of volunteers include agencies and organizations such as: