FREEHOLDER CAPPELLI OUTLINES CAMEN COUNTY MENTORING EFFORT AT STATE CONFERENCE
For Immediate Release: May 30, 2008
Contacts: KEN SHUTTLEWORTH

TRENTON – Camden County’s success with recruiting mentors was outlined by Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli Jr. at the Governor’s Conference on Volunteerism and Service on Wednesday, May 28 in Trenton.

Cappelli credited collaboration with three community-based organizations – Volunteers of America, the Center for Family Services and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Camden County – for generating applications from nearly 150 prospective mentors this year.

“A total of 45 are now undergoing training and five are actually working with a young person in need of guidance,” he told an audience of about 40 people who attended the May 28 workshop entitled “Mentoring: Every Success Story Has a Mentor.”

Cappelli also expressed gratitude to Gov. Jon S. Corzine for inviting him to participate. “It shows Camden County is a leader in the volunteerism movement,” he said

The County participated in one of 28 workshops organized by Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells to promote greater corporate and citizen participation in volunteerism. The Secretary said more than 1.6 million New Jerseyans provide volunteer service each year, contributing the equivalent of over $4 billion in the value of their time and talents

The governor said he hoped the conference would stimulate “new ideas and strategies that will enhance” services provided by conference participants. He also said the conference was aimed at fostering and facilitating “myriad possibilities for partnership between the corporate and volunteer communities.”

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