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2 MENTORING:
AN ORIENTATION

2.1 What is Mentoring?

2.2 Personal Reflection

2.3 Qualities of
Successful Mentors

2.4 Your Role As A
 Mentor

2.5 The Role of Parents

2.6 What Young People
 Want in a Mentor

2.9 Can You Commit?

 


What is Mentoring?

A mentor is an adult who, along with parents, provides young people with support, counsel, friendship, reinforcement and a constructive example. Mentors are good listeners, people who care, people who want to help young people bring out strengths that are already there.

A mentoring relationship can take many forms. In the best relationships, the adult helps the youth define and achieve his/her goals.


Mentors not only touch someone's life, they have the potential to touch and change the life of a nation. - from How To Be a Great Mentor by The Partnership, Kaplan Educational Centers and Newsweek.

As a mentor, you might help your mentee:

  • Plan a project for school
  • Explore a topic of mutual interest
  • Visit some of the exciting places where you live
  • Set some career goals and start taking steps to make them happen
  • Learn more about the community and how to help others through volunteering
  • Strengthen communication skills and ability to relate well to all kinds of people
  • Make healthy choices about day-to-day life, from food to exercise and beyond

The list is almost endless!


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