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Community-based Mentoring
Community-based mentoring takes place anywhere in the community. Match activities may include attending events, going to museums, cultural or sporting events, restaurants, etc. Typically, this type of mentoring asks the mentor for a commitment of at least one year.
Mentor's commitment helps the mentoring pair persevere despite initial reluctance from mentee; relationship develops into the longest standing match run by Tehama County Mentoring Program of Red Bluff, CA.
Former social worker fills the void for a male role model in a boy’s life whose father moved away when he was five; mentor cautions, “don’t be parental,” include them in the natural flow of your life and just do things together.
With gentle guidance during fun activities mentor helps teenage girl from a family of nine kids improve grades, set goals for college, and raise funds to participate in the youth missionary in the Philippines.
Young professional looks for ways to get to know her new community and gets involved with mentoring a high school student; helps her through the SAT and college application process.
Mentoring relationship lasts for 12 years; starts off with regular reading sessions in kindergarten, and progresses to mentor helping her mentee develop into a successful young adult; mentee comes from a home with both mother and father but benefits from the friendly guidance by her young professional female mentor.
University professor mentors a school girl, teaching her that learning can be fun and rewarding; they take a trip to Mexico as a culmination of the mentee’s A in AP Spanish; mentee in turn challenges and enriches her mentor’s world; mentee comes from a home with both mother and father and talks highly of them, but mentor gives her additional guidance and skills for succeed in life.
College student mentors a school boy that is growing up with a mom and eight siblings; mentee expresses interest in having a mentor when he witnesses his older sister benefitting from one; having a female mentor helps him get over notions picked up from unfortunate family circumstances, and teaches him to forgive and accept his recovering alcoholic father; mentoring relationship transcends a formal mentoring partnership and turns into a solid friendship going on ten years.
Military man who lives away from his own family mentors a school boy; both fill the void in each other and stay in a formal relationship until mentor is relocated.
Mentor grew up with her mother being a mentor and continues that tradition in college and subsequent professional life; the mentoring relationship proves to be a strong bond even when she and her husband adopt a baby; mentor still finds time for one-on-one time with the school girl; receives a Big Sister of the Year award in 2005.
Phillipa and Danielle, New York, NY
Young professional mentors a high school student through a partnership program between her employer and the local school; helps her mentee through the college application process; the mentoring couple receives recognition for the success of their relationship in 2005 at the New York City Mentoring Program’s annual event.
Asian American mentor helps an adopted boy from the Philippines adjust culturally, socially and academically to his life in the U.S; mentor stands by the boy while his adoptive parents get a divorce; mentor awarded Asian Professional Extension’s Volunteer of the Year in 2004.
Empty nest mother mentors a school girl; despite the age difference mentor and mentee find friends in each other, and establish a long-lasting stable relationship.
High school senior mentors a peer with mental disability in a peer-to-peer mentoring arrangement; both participate in a bike ride marathon; mentor and mentee often switch rolls learning valuable life-lessons together.
High school student and former mentee mentors an elementary school girl; both girls prove to benefit each other in becoming more confident and open with their own peers; wins 2005 High School Big Sister of the Year.
A retired father of two adult daughters looks to mentor a school boy when he and his wife relocate to a new area. Having grown up without a father, mentor fills this void in the child’s life by playing sports, watching games, playing guitar, or washing neighborhood cars to raise money for the next outing.
Mentor who drives race cars as a hobby mentors a young race-cars enthusiast; the mentoring relationship transcends a formal relationship, they form a strong friendship from which both benefit.
College student gets involved in mentoring when she notices a strong bond between a mentor friend and mentee; the relationship of five years plus proves to be beneficial not only for mentee’s college prep but also provides mentor with valuable parenting skills; mentor named Texas Big Sister of the Year in 2005.
Worldwise mentor who grew up in Africa in a family of two professors works on helping his mentee realize that higher education is the key to success; mentor tutors him during scheduled weekly sessions; helps him explore financial options for college; mentor cautions potential mentors to be patient and allow sufficient time for trust to develop.
Retiree mentors an 11-year-old in a mutually beneficial relationship; both claim that shared experiences, challenges and successes transcend age; after six months of meeting weekly at school, mentor petitions to expand the program to community-based mentoring.
Mentor helps her 18-year old mentee, who grew up in an unstable home and was having emotional problems, to lay the groundwork for a successful future; helps mentee explore financial options for college, buy the first car, establish a bank account, and start dating; mentee points out that having exposure to the life of a successful woman provides an example of a successful life as a result of hard thoughtful work.
28-year-old young professional mentors a girl who recently lost her mother; the pair goes to the library, watches movies, or just talks during their weekly meetings.
Law school student mentors a young girl while in law school and beyond; eight years and still going strong, mentor receives Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota’s Angel of Mentoring award.
College student, former mentee, Miss Maine and spokesperson for mentoring statewide advocates for funding to prevent shutting down of program, mentor calls this “the most meaningful and educational” experience she’s ever had, highlighting not only her mentee’s growth but her own as well.
Mentor fills the void for a father-figure in young man’s life; helps him develop four-year plans for success in high school and college; MENTOR Spotlight Award in 2006.
Troubled teen turns his life around under careful guidance of his mentor; couple received MENTOR Spotlight Award in 2006
Girl abandoned by her mother finds support and solace in her mentor; graduates high school as a honor student moving on to nursing school; MENTOR Spotlight Award in 2006
Mentoring relationship that started after WWII spans six decades and still continues; mentee continues the legacy by mentoring a young man.
50+ African American men act as “Grandfather” mentors to fatherless kids; mentor provides stability by promising to “always be there” for a child growing up in unstable home.
Mayor of Groton who is a father and grandfather takes on mentoring a fourth-grade boy by involving his mentee in various art activities; he says, "just one hour a week can make a positive difference."
A young school girl from Mexico is helped by diligent tutoring efforts of her mentor to improve her writing and reading who is now studying to be a dental assistant at a local community college thro English skills; mentor arranges job shadowing in a dental office for mentee with a $1000 scholarship.
Pediatrician mentors a seventh-grade boy who does not have a father in his life on virtues of kindness, health and safety; the mentee is so impressed with the experience that he himself volunteers as a reading tutor to younger children.
Married US Air Force airman with two young children, pursuing a BA degree, mentors a first-grader by welcoming him into his family – “As far as activities go, just include that child in your normal routine, in things you already do. Washing your car, balancing your checkbook, tossing a ball around outside...these are the simple times in life a child remembers forever when these times are given as gift….”
Football coach husband and veterinarian wife mentor a child whose father passed away; after six years, mentee is a successful athlete getting ready for college, and planning to mentor one day.
Mentor successfully tutors her six-grade mentee for three months when the girl struggles to keep up, and helps her get motivation to succeed on her own.
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