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.
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.