BECOMING A BETTER MENTOR:

Strategies to Be There for Young People

MENTOR’s Becoming a Better Mentor: Strategies to Be There for Young People is a free resource written by experts in the field to benefit any adult looking to support young people. Full of real-world advice and evidence-based strategies, it provides mentors with tangible strategies to “be there” for young people in their various life journeys and teaches them about the core skills, key principles, and critical practices of mentoring, such as:

  • mindsets and attitudes that lay the foundation for a strong mentoring relationship;
  • basic information about youth development and typical mentoring relationship cycles; and
  • critical skills and competencies to grow and refine to meet the needs of youth.

Each of the topics can be downloaded as a written resource,
a video, and an audio file (coming soon!) below.

Listen to the audiobook here

View the introductory webinar here

Testimonials

Meet the Authors

Ed Bowers
Clemson University

Minnie Chen
MENTOR

Kelsey Deane
University of Auckland

Mike Garringer
MENTOR

Linda Gilkerson
Erikson Institute

Carla Herrera
Independent Mentoring Consultant

Michelle Kaufman
Johns Hopkins University

Michael Karcher
University of Texas – San Antonio

Tom Keller
Portland State University

Gabriel Kuperminc
Georgia State University

Sam McQuillin
University of South Carolina

Julia Pryce
Loyola University Chicago

Bernadette Sánchez
University of Illinois – Chicago

Elizabeth Santiago
MENTOR (Sr. Advisor)

Sarah Schwartz
Suffolk University

Renée Spencer
Boston University

Dudney Sylla
MENTOR

Torie Weiston-Serdan
The Center for Critical Mentoring and Youth Works

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Video resources were made possible with the support of the Taco Bell Foundation.

Print resources were made possible with the support of JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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