Mentoring Youth- Jill Gurr talks about her new book and Create Now

Published: Jan. 3, 2012, 12:17 a.m.

Today’s podcast is about mentoring youth. My guest is Jill Gurr-yes, a relative-who just published a book on mentoring called “Mentor Youth Now- A Guidebook for Transforming Young Lives”.

Jill Gurr Is the Director of Create Now, a creative arts mentoring
organization that she founded in 1996. She has trained hundreds of
volunteers to mentor thousands of the most troubled children in
Southern California. She is also a produced screenwriter and
worked us a script supervisor on award-winning movies around the
world. She has been featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian
Williams and Anderson Cooper 360.She was one of eight people in
the country featured in the exhibition ”Everyday Heroes” at the
Museum of Tolerance In Los Angeles and one of four people in the
nation selected by the British Council to represent the U.S. on a
Global Xchange program in South Africa and Northern Ireland.