Who We Are

The Vision of Mother Mentors is that all families with young children on Whidbey Island thrive through the support and connection of their community.

Mother Mentors is focused on reducing stress and strengthening families. By building relationships and creating community, we create a network of support for Whidbey Island families with young children.

Our Guiding Principles:
We believe that relationships and interactions between parents and their children provide the foundation for children's learning, growth, and development.

We believe families are strongest when they are well-supported, by one another and by their communities.

We believe every person who makes an extended commitment to a child’s life will have an impact on that child’s well-being and development.

We believe how we do the work of supporting families is as important as what we do. 

We acknowledge that there are opportunity gaps for many young children and families based on race, ethnicity, gender, income, ability, culture, and geography.

We commit to eliminating these gaps and addressing the root causes.

We commit to approaching our work with a sense of cultural humility and inclusion.

We commit to becoming better listeners to the voices and concerns of people of color and those from non-traditional family structures to further our understanding of how to combat disparities and better support all families in our community.

Values We Practice:

  • We foster healthy, positive family relationships for those we serve, for our staff, and for our volunteers.
  • We facilitate relationship-building among families in our programs and between families with staff and volunteers. 
  • We value the inter-generational nature of our work.

  • We demonstrate integrity, honest, and transparency at all levels of our organization.

  • We are accountable to our families and our community.