First Mondays are Now for Mentoring.
MORE hope
SAFER community
STRONGER friendships
HEALTHIER, more STABLE Moms and families
Sign up by October 15 for the Mother Matters Mentoring Circle of your choice and stick with that topic and circle of Moms and leaders for six mentoring sessions during the 2025-2026 programming season, November through June. Mentoring Circles will break for our annual Christmas and Mother’s Day celebrations.
“THEY SEE IN ME WHAT I COULDN’T SEE IN MYSELF. . .
“THEY ARE THERE FOR ME LIKE THE FAMILY I NEVER HAD AND LOVE ME UNCONDITIONALLY.”
“THEY HELPED ME BELIEVE IN MYSELF AND BELIEVE THAT TOGETHER, WE CAN HELP OTHER WOMEN AND ENCOURAGE AND EMPOWER THEM.”
COMING FALL 2025
NEW! Mother Matters Mentoring Circles
Circle 1: Maternal Wellbeing
featuring specialists in women’s mental and physical health care
Circle 2: Budgeting—The Absolute Basics
planning, spending, and saving the money we REALLY have
Circle 3: Walk a Mile in Her Shoes
teaching Moms how to make and stay friends with women
and their kids who don’t look, think, or act like them
STILL! The 1st Monday of every month October-June
5:45-8pm @ Boys and Girls Club of Erie
1515 E. Lake Road, Erie, PA 16511
With everything you’ve come to know and love—free fellowship, child care,
dinner, an inspirational speaker, prayer, community resources, transportation,
if needed, and the same great mentors and leaders. We’re also welcoming back our partners: DreamBuilders, Emily Wachter Early Intervention Services, expERIEnce Children’s Museum, and Youth for Christ.
SEATS ARE LIMITED, registration is required by October 15
“YOU CAN ALWAYS TALK TO
SOMEONE ABOUT ANYTHING."
“ THANK YOU FOR COMING INTO MY LIFE BECAUSE WHEN THINGS GET HARD AND I’M FALLING APART, I START REPLAYING EVERYTHING YOU’VE SAID.”
Child care is always free at Mother Matters Mentoring Circles and includes a kid-friendly dinner, age-appropriate educational activities, and loving care. Emily Wachter and her early intervention specialists and ExpERIEnce Children's Museum educators join our gifted volunteers to foster the development and imaginations of our pre-k and elementary-age kids. Our middle and high school youth gather with loving adults for gym time, dinner, and much-needed trust-based conversations with Youth for Christ.
“Moms Night Out” is shifting to more of a “girls night out” look and feel—hanging out, coffee and snacks, good clean fun, childcare, and transportation, if needed. These events will still be free and open to any Mom and her kids, but will only take place (for starters) four times a year. This new “Moms Night Out” model gives Moms a chance for respite and to socialize, while connecting with Erie City Moms’ community of mentors and leaders. We will launch these starting January 2026—watch for dates and locations on our Facebook and website!