January is National Mentoring Month

National Mentoring Month highlights mentoring and the positive impact it can have on young lives. This month-long outreach campaign focuses national attention on the need for mentors, as well as how each of us – individuals, businesses, government agencies, schools, faith communities and nonprofits – can work together to increase the number of mentors and assure brighter futures for our young people.

President Bush acknowledged National Mentoring Month in a Presidential Proclamation issued on December 22, 2005. To read the President's proclamation, click here.

Resolve to be Ready in 2006

Get Ready and Citizen Corps are encouraging Americans make an important New Year's resolution: be prepared.

For more information about how you and your family can be prepared in 2006, visit www.ready.gov or www.citizencorps.gov.

White House Staff Participates in Volunteer Service Project

On Saturday, December 3, over 80 White House staff members participated in a USO Care Package Stuffing Party. Operation USO Care Package has distributed more than 750,000 Care Packages to deploying or deployed service personnel at embarkation points and other sites and locations served by the USO. Each USO Care Package contains, at a minimum, one prepaid international calling card, a disposable camera, toiletries, sunscreen, and a message of support from the sender.

To learn more about USO, visit www.uso.org.