Understanding Youth-Initiated Mentoring and How to Employ this Strategy with Today's Youth
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In this webinar, panelists discuss key elements of youth-initiated mentoring as well as challenges youth-initiated programs experience and assets they possess.
Panelists discuss what the research says about this innovative practice, how to support young people as they identify and contact a mentor, and the challenges that arise when the relationship transforms from informal to purposeful and goal-oriented.
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Sarah Schwartz, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Suffolk University
Melissa Beagley – Mentoring Services Coordinator, Midlands Mentoring Partnership
Ellie Cuifalo – Youth Mentor Program Coordinator, Klingberg Family Centers
Successful recruitment of mentors is a benchmark of overall program quality, yet according to the 2016 National Mentoring Program Survey, recruiting mentors is the number one challenge of mentoring programs. What if young people could identify a caring adult they want for a mentor? Youth-initiated mentoring is gaining momentum throughout the country. It involves engaging non-parental adults from young people’s own social networks to serve as mentors.
Hear from a leading researcher in the field of youth-initiated mentoring, a mentoring Affiliate in how they support this practice, and a mentoring program representative.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2018
- Organizational Author(s): MENTOR
- Posted by: Youth Connections TA 1
- Posted in: Youth Connections