McCullough's Active Mentoring Services helps students succeed in life!

Norman J. McCullough Sr., MA, BA
norman@mcculloughmentoring.com
(570) 484-5924

Our Mission

The mission of McCullough’s Active Mentoring Services (MAMS) is to provide a wholesome and nurturing environment for junior high, high school and college students who can benefit from an individual, group, corporate and/or after-school mentoring program that fosters educational enrichment and the development of positive self-esteem.

Summer 2009 Mentoring Session with Mentor Michael Leonard Sr. (center) and Norman McCullough Sr., Program Director and CEO (far right)

Our Service

"Our program is not speifically designed for the child in trouble. It is designed to prevent kids from getting into trouble," McCullough said. "We emphasize being successful. It's the mechanism to get the students to the point of getting a better sense of what they need to do to succeed."

Most recently, MAMS is working with the community of East Stroudsburg in the Poconos, PA. We have also held programs in New York City and East Orange, N.J.

The mentoring program consists of five Saturday sessions, three hours each ontopics such as:

the wonders of the health care industry ( in view of the 78 million “baby boomers” in the process of retiring)
negotiating the criminal and legal justice system
how to be successful in higher education
entrepreneurship and technology in the 21st century

Next Session Starts

May 2010

To Register:
norman@mcculloughmentoring.com
(570) 484-5924

Our Saturday sessions are designed for the church community and school systems. The program empower the students that attend, but also galvanizes the resources in the community to interconnect with those who “have” with those that don't.

The students learn techniques that are needed to become successful in the medical, legal, criminal justice, private and public sectors and other aspects of the world of work. We have also found that as a result of the shared life expereinces during the program, a more mature family bond develop between the students and their parents.

"They tell us to focus first on staying in school, doing better in school and graduating," one student said. "They tell us to stay away from the negative and avoid the wrong crowd. They tell us, whatever career we think we might be interested in, to learn all about it and talk to people who do it for a living."

Opportunity

Professionals in the community are encouraged to participate in the program so that the area youth can “see” and “hear” what it takes to become successful from those in the community who have “made it.” MAMS is prepared to train intertested and qualified members of the community to continue the mentoring program on an on-going basis. We are also prepared to apply for grants to enable the community to provide our services without charge. Please contact us at the below for any inquires.

"We are a community interested in the kids. The kids are important," McCullough said. "We as adults have to invest in our young people, and I am not talking about money. It's time and that can often be more powerful than any amount of money."

In the News!

Two families grateful for mentoring program by Andrew Scott, Pocono Record on July 19, 2009.

Mentoring program trying to reach more families in the Poconos NYC transplant forms mentoring program for kids by Andrew Scott, Pocono Record on July 19, 2009.

Program looks to steer Pocono teens in right direction by Melanie Vanderveer, Pocono Record on June 1, 2009.

Norman J. McCullough Sr., MA, BA
norman@mcculloughmentoring.com
(570) 484-5924