Mentor Resources
Building Relationships: a Guide for New Mentors
Based on an extensive survey of mentors and mentees about their
relationships, this guide focuses on 10 effective relationship strategies
for mentors. An excellent resource for all mentors in your program that can
help them establish strong, lasting relationships with their mentees.
http://educationnorthwest.org/webfm_send/173
Fact Sheet For Mentoring Boys
This fact sheet will outline some challenges with mentoring
boys and suggest strategies to assist you in mentoring boys.
http://www.kidsnkinship.org/forms/mentoring_boys.pdf
The Teen Years, Explained
The science behind adolescent development including tips to empower adults to invest more attention and more time in young people.
http://www.jhsph.edu/bin/s/e/Interactive%20Guide.pdf
Why Youth Mentoring Relationships End
This new publication explores many of the common reasons that some mentoring relationships fail while providing some simple tools programs can use to make compatible matches and avoid relationship struggles. (published by MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership)
http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_386.pdf
Tools for Mentoring Adolescents
An outstanding collection of 10 easily adaptable training activities and information. (published by the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota)
www.mentoringworks.org/Training_Institute_Tools_and_Resources.html
Responsible Mentoring: Talking About Drugs, Sex and Other Difficult Issues
This publication can help staff prepare their mentors for some of the more difficult subjects that may come while working with high-risk youth. It is imperative that mentors have the skills to handle the more sensitive and troubling issues in the lives of their mentees. (published by EMT)
www.emt.org/userfiles/RespMentoringBooklet.pdf
Handouts from Mentoring for Meaningful Results- Mentor's Role
The Search Institute, whose 40 Developmental Assets have formed a key component of most youth work today, have made several sections and handouts from their widely acclaimed Mentoring for Meaningful Results guidebook available. These can easily be incorporated into mentor or parent orientations.
http://www.search-institute.org/system/files/whatismyrole.pdf
Handouts from Mentoring for Meaningful Results- My Mentor's Role (for Mentee)
This one describes the mentor's role to a mentee. The Search Institute, whose 40 Developmental Assets have formed a key component of most youth work today, have made several sections and handouts from their widely acclaimed Mentoring for Meaningful Results guidebook available. These can easily be incorporated into mentor or parent orientations.
http://www.search-institute.org/system/files/mymentorsrole.pdf
forming relationships
This is research based information on forming and keeping close relationships between mentors and mentees
http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_385.pdf
Learn To Mentor
On-line training module by the National Mentoring
Partnership. Includes a downloadable Learn to Mentor toolkit, which
includes exercises and tools.
http://apps.mentoring.org/training/TMT/Mentor_training_toolkit.pdf
Bullying: What Parents and Teachers Should Know
A study conducted by the Kaiser Foundation found that 86% of children ages 12-15 said they get teased or bullied at school - making bullying more prevalent than smoking, alcohol, drugs, or sex among the same age group.
http://www.focusas.com/Bullying.html
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder information.
http://www.ncfr.org/about/news_read.asp?id=1237
The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota
Its mission is to connect more youth with quality mentoring and economic self-sufficiency experiences.Follow links on top bar- click on resources, drop down to Mentors.
www.mentoringworks.org
Mentor
An organization that promotes advocates and is a resource for mentors and mentoring initiatives nationwide.
www.mentoring.org
The National Mentoring Center
The National Mentoring Center has a library of articles on mentoring.
www.nwrel.org/mentoring
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV)
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of social policies, programs, and community initiatives, especially as they affect youth and young adults.
www.ppv.org/ppv/index.asp
Children of Prisoners Library (CPL)
Children of Prisoners Library (CPL), an Internet based resource provides free information sheets designed for people serving children of prisoners and their caregivers.
www.fcnetwork.org
Ideas of things to do with kids
Lot of fun information here.
http://www.creativekidsathome.com
Discovering Possibilities "C"ing your future
Mentoring Partnership of Long Island New York has recently launched a new curriculum designed for 8th and 9th graders and their mentors. The curriculum helps mentors assist their mentees connect the dots between aspirational goals and the process steps necessary to reach those goals.
http://mentorkids.org/attachments/-01_Full%20file%20FOR%20WEB.pdf