Year-End Mentoring Celebration! Please join us at Lions Park to celebrate a wonderful year in mentoring. We’ll enjoy ice cream, bouldering, lawn games, and special new giveaways for mentors and mentees! When: May 19th, 6:30-8:00PM Who: Mentors, mentees, & families Where: Lions Park / Moab Boulder Park (Junction of 191 and UT-128) What: Bouldering, [...]
A Year of Growth: Expanding Opportunities for Youth The 2025–2026 school year has been a period of strong growth for Grand Area Mentoring. Following the natural closure of many matches last year, the program set a goal of creating 20 new matches. To date, 24 new matches have been established—the highest number in a [...]
Conversation starters: Try these with your mentee: What is something that made today a little better? What’s something you’ve gotten a little better at over time? What’s something small that went right this week? Follow their lead. If a mentee gives a short answer, that’s okay – connection comes from consistency, not depth in [...]
Indigenous Culture Awareness Training! Why: Knowledge & diversity! Who: Mentors and school district staff When: Monday, March 16th @ 5:30-6:30pm Where: USU Moab (Room TBD, follow posted signs) Join us for an engaging and informative training by Ricky Begaye, focused on the Indigenous cultures of the Moab region. This session will explore the history, [...]
Happy February! This month's newsletter features: A new and exciting advanced training opportunity – De-escalation and Mental Health First-Aid with Maya Obstfeld A campfire, smores, and hot chocolate opportunity Important school dates A new and creative mentoring game at HMK And pics of mentors and mentees in action! Please join us on Zoom for [...]
Landmark Study Affirms the Power of Mentoring A groundbreaking four-year randomized controlled trial by Dr. David DuBois and Dr. Carla Herrera has delivered the strongest evidence to date that high-quality mentoring profoundly improves youth outcomes. Spanning 1,350 youth across 17 mentoring agencies, the study is the largest and longest evaluation ever conducted on community-based [...]
This Month in Mentoring! December 16, 4:30-5:30 @HMK: Building Consent Culture: Empowering Mentors and Mentees! Please join us for this new training by Seekhaven’s Tasia Wu! After 2 awesome OneLove trainings last year, Tasia is returning to us for a fresh and important subject! See box in PDF. December 20-January 5: Winter Break. No [...]
This Month in Mentoring! November 4, 4-5: Trauma-Informed Mentoring Training Part 1 on Zoom with Kelly Vagts! Join from the comfort of your own home or office for this video. We will screen our one-hour essential training on trauma-informed mentoring. Mark your calendar. See box on reverse. November 5: 3:15-6: Hell’s Revenge Adventure Tour [...]
This Month in Mentoring (and beyond)! October 7, 4:30-5:30: Mindfulness for Mentoring Workshop. See box above. October 14: 5% Day at Moonflower Market! Do a big buy on the 14th and 5% of your purchase will go to Grand Area Mentoring! Thank you to Moonflower for believing in the youth of Moab and supporting [...]
September 1: Labor Day. No school. September 2, 5pm, via Zoom: Community-Based Mentoring Training for new 6th and 7th grade-serving mentors. September 20, 10-11AM: Mentor Celebration! Join us for a special mentor party and refreshments at beautiful 716 Peartree Lane. See newsletter. September 20, 3-7PM: Harvest Festival at YGP. September 27, 8:30am-4pm: Rafting the [...]