Mentoring
The number of mentoring programs has grown dramatically in recent years. This popularity results in part from compelling testimonials by people--youth and adults alike--who have themselves benefited from the positive influence of an older person who helped them endure social, academic, career, or personal crises.
Mentoring programs are established to match a suitable adult or older youth--the mentor--with a younger person. Potential mentors are recruited from various sources including corporate, professional, and religious communities, as well as neighborhood citizens. Nominations for mentors are sought formally and informally through flyers, posters, mailings, and word-of-mouth.
Appropriately matching mentors with youths is at the heart of all programs. Matching can be done formally and informally through interviews, personal profiles, comparative interest inventories, and get-acquainted sessions. In programs where mentors and youths are given a chance to choose each other, planned mentoring takes on many aspects of natural mentoring.
Course Content in Brief
Why Youth Need Mentors
The Role of the Mentor
So What Exactly Does a Mentor Do?
Benefits to Mentor, Student, and Organization
Practices of Effective Mentors
Practices of Ineffective Mentors
Stages in Mentor/Student Relationship
What is Culture?
Environmental Factors that Affect Adolescent Development
Risk Factors that Affect Adolescents in or on the Periphery of Gangs
Listening with Both Ears
Communicating with Your Student
Rules of Communication
What is Self-Esteem
Sharing and Modeling Values
Empowering Youth: Solving Problems Versus Giving Advice
Asking High Quality Questions
Mentor Support
How to Let Go – When and How to Dissolve the Relationship
Exhibits
Mentoring is offered free online or by workshop to UNE staff members.
Please register by sending a registration form to Organisational Development, fax 2755 or by internal mail. As soon as this is processed we will contact you to advise that your course is now available through UNE Online.
Please indicate your preference for the online or workshop component.