Finding Mentors, Finding Success

Resources for Mentors

Finding Mentors

This guidebook for mentees teaches youth how to seek out appropriate mentors who can help them with their next steps in life once leaving a mentoring program or other system of support.

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Finding Mentors

This guidebook for mentees teaches youth how to seek out appropriate mentors who can help them with their next steps in life once leaving a mentoring program or other system of support.

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Description of Resource:

This resource is intended to support high school-age youth with finding his or her next mentor at the end of a programmatic mentoring relationship. Originally designed for use in YouthBuild programs, this resource is designed to help youth think about where they are at in life, what they liked from their previous mentoring relationships, and how future mentors could offer new forms of support and guidance. Planning worksheets and other prompts encourage the mentee to think about the help he or she will need in meeting goals, while tips on making “the ask” attempt to take some of the fear and awkwardness out of approaching someone and asking that person to take on a mentoring role.

 

Goals:

Provide young people with the information and skills needed to find new mentors throughout their lives, especially when one mentoring relationship may be ending.

 

Target Population/Eligibility of Target Sites:

Although designed for youth exiting a formal mentoring program, much of the content can be applied to youth in general.

 

Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice:

Recruitment
Closure

 

Key Personnel:

None.

 

Additional Information:

None.

Resource Name:

Finding Mentors, Finding Success: A guide to finding—and engaging—supportive adults throughout your life

 

Publisher/Source:

YouthBuild USA

 

Author:

YouthBuild USA

 

Date of Publication:

2013

 

Resource Type:

Resources for Mentees and Families

Evaluation Methodology:

Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

 

Evaluation Outcomes:

Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

 

Evaluation Validity:

Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

Accessing and Using this Resource:

This resource is available for free download here: https://nationalmentoringresourcecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Finding-Mentors-Finding-Success.pdf 

References:

None

  • Description of Resource:

    This resource is intended to support high school-age youth with finding his or her next mentor at the end of a programmatic mentoring relationship. Originally designed for use in YouthBuild programs, this resource is designed to help youth think about where they are at in life, what they liked from their previous mentoring relationships, and how future mentors could offer new forms of support and guidance. Planning worksheets and other prompts encourage the mentee to think about the help he or she will need in meeting goals, while tips on making “the ask” attempt to take some of the fear and awkwardness out of approaching someone and asking that person to take on a mentoring role.

     

    Goals:

    Provide young people with the information and skills needed to find new mentors throughout their lives, especially when one mentoring relationship may be ending.

     

    Target Population/Eligibility of Target Sites:

    Although designed for youth exiting a formal mentoring program, much of the content can be applied to youth in general.

     

    Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice:

    Recruitment
    Closure

     

    Key Personnel:

    None.

     

    Additional Information:

    None.

  • Resource Name:

    Finding Mentors, Finding Success: A guide to finding—and engaging—supportive adults throughout your life

     

    Publisher/Source:

    YouthBuild USA

     

    Author:

    YouthBuild USA

     

    Date of Publication:

    2013

     

    Resource Type:

    Resources for Mentees and Families

  • Evaluation Methodology:

    Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

     

    Evaluation Outcomes:

    Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

     

    Evaluation Validity:

    Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

  • Accessing and Using this Resource:

    This resource is available for free download here: https://nationalmentoringresourcecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Finding-Mentors-Finding-Success.pdf 

  • References:

    None