Resources for Mentors
Activities
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Academic Activity Guide |
The Academic Activity Guide is a collection of learning activities and projects designed by educational professionals specifically for mentoring programs. |
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Friends For Youth Activities |
Throughout the year, Friends for Youth offers Friendship group activities. Designed to support personal development and provide new experiences, these activities have four focus areas: recreation, life skills, learning/academics, and community service. |
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Mentoring Journals |
Mentoring Journals offer mentoring matches a structured yet flexible format to enjoy meaningful activities together, increasing the opportunity for meaningful interactions. Each journal includes: Hundreds of Activity Ideas For All Ages, Quarterly Activites, a Page of Stickers, Four Pocket Pages, Goal-Setting Opportunities, 52 Weekly Logs, a Photo Album and a Closure Process. |
Mentee-Mentor Relationship
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Building Relationships: A Guide for New Mentors |
Building Relationships is a technical assistance packet filled with the voices of youth and mentors talking about their relationships, and provides advice on how to be an effective mentor. |
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Building Relationships: A Guide for New Mentors |
This resource is a great mentor training supplement, providing mentors with ten simple tips for effective relationship development. The guide is filled with real quotes from mentors and youth about the value of mentor traits such as active listening, being positive, and giving youth a role in selecting activities. |
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Positive Effects of a Quality Mentoring Relationship |
This mentoring video highlights friendship success stories, youth insights, parent perspectives, and the positive effects of a quality mentoring relationship. Eight minutes in length and suitable for recruiting, orientation, and/or training purposes. |
Training
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A Mentor's Guide to Youth Development (Fact Sheet) |
Third in the series of youth development fact sheets, this issue explains to mentors how they can apply youth development strategies in their interactions with their mentee. |
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Building Relationships: A Guide for New Mentors |
Building Relationships: A Guide for New Mentors (PDF) |
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Cultivating Leadership: Mentoring Youth with Disabilities |
Information on how to mentor youth with disabilities. |
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Gender-Specific Approaches in Mentoring |
Gender-Specific Approaches in Mentoring (Fact Sheet) (PDF) |
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Mentoring Adolescents |
Characteristics of adolescence and the trials associated with this stage of life. By recognizing some of the challenges, mentors can help their adolescent mentees by establishing limits and structure, reinforcing the mentees' strengths, and seeking opportunities for the mentees to behave independently and responsibly. |
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Mentoring Youth to Make Positive Life Decisions |
Making positive life decisions is a skill that can be modeled successfully when working with youth. Using an eight-step process outlined by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory will encourage youth to do the same when facing tough decisions on their own. |
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Responsible Mentoring: Talking About Drugs, Sex and Other Difficult Issues |
Address the very delicate process by which mentors and program managers assist youth as they struggle with difficult issues such as drugs, sex, family problems. |
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Wisdom of Age: A Handbook for Mentors |
Provides direct guidance to older mentors by helping them develop the skills to feel confident as they proceed in their mentoring relationships. |
