Network Resources: Peer Mentoring Network: Advocacy: Speakers Bureau

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• Mentors
• Guiding Questions
• Additional Resources

Mentors

Janet Rosenzweig
Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey
103 Church St., Suite 210
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-246-8060
732-246-1776 fax
Email: jrosenzweig@preventchildabusenj.org

Gaylord Gieseke
Voices of Illinois Children
208 S. LaSalle St., Suite 1490
Chicago, IL 60604-1103
312-516-5565
312-465-0088
Email: ggieseke@voices4kids.org

Guiding Questions

1) Do you have staff and/or relationships with experts in the field who are willing to present on your behalf?

2) Do you utilize volunteers? If so, can they be trained to be voices for your program out in the community?

3) Do you have marketing tools to be used by speakers?

4) Do you have a mechanism for evaluating the effectiveness of your speakers?

Additional Resources

Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey's speakers database and evaluation form. More...

Voices for Children Nebraska's Speaker's Bureau. More...

To view other nonprofits' use of speaker's bureaus:

• http://www.safe4all.org/speakers/
• www.lifelongaidsalliance.org/prevention/speakers.html