Welcome Back! The 2022/2023 school year begins on August 18th! Megan will be in touch with returning school-based mentors and mentees to help schedule meetings. Community-based matches should set up their own sessions; let us know if you need assistance. This will be Grand Area Mentoring’s 18th season of connecting deserving Moab youth with kind [...]
Summertime Opportunities Stay connected over the summer. Plan ahead to meet occasionally, talk on the phone, Zoom, or send mail. Community-based matches have approved sites available to them. We invite school-based matches to meet at HMK during summer lunch. Please complete a log entry after each meeting, available here: https://grandmentoring.org/mentor-log/ Send updates the old-fashioned way! [...]
This Month in Mentoring May 10, 5pm, via Zoom: Book Club Discussion! Join us to chat about Chapter 11. This one is awesome! (See newsletter for more.) May 13, 8pm, Swanny Park movie: Indian Jones & the Last Crusade! Hosted by Science Moab! Talk at 8. Film starts at 8:30. May 18: One Day in [...]
Right on Target! Your mentee is totally unique, and therefore you might feel alone in your mission to help. Nobody else has been in this exact situation before! As a child grows, they present new behaviors and encounter new obstacles. Change is a constant. There may not be a distinct goal to aim for, so [...]
Challenge By Choice How did you grow up to take healthy risks? Where do confidence and resilience come from? How did you find yourself compelled to help others while also taking care of your own needs? Yes, to some degree helpful instincts are inborn. But success is not a foregone conclusion, as incarceration rates, school [...]
Mentoring Idea of the Month #1: Reduce and understand the stress in your life! Stress affects us all. Some stress is good; it helps us strive and find fulfillment. However, too much stress can be draining and unhealthy. Stress management expert David Lewis offers ten tips for finding a healthy way to manage our emotions [...]
New Book Club for Mentors MENTOR, the National Mentoring Partnership, has released its brand new guide for mentors: Becoming a Better Mentor. This excellent book goes through the elements of improving your mentoring relationship. It’s available free here: www.mentoring.org/resource/becoming-a-better-mentor/ You are invited to join Grand Area Mentoring in reading four select chapters through May, one [...]
Mentor Roundtable Discussion with GIFTS & FOOD! January 12th, 5-6pm, Hopkin Middle School Mentors, come on down to the Hop (middle school behind City Market) to celebrate National Mentoring Month with mentors and program staff! For just showing up, you’ll get: A $10 gift card to City Market! A generous spread of food, including cookies, [...]
Advanced Mentor Training: TRAUMA-INFORMED MENTORING (Part 2) w/ Kelly Vagts December 9th, ,5-6pm, via Zoom A Trauma Lens: Helping mentors implement a trauma-informed approach with mentees and families. Part one guided mentors in developing a trauma lens so that we don't take a child's behavior personally, to help us look past the behavior. Part two [...]
The Importance of Prevention Although the costs of youth dysfunction are difficult to measure, one need only consider the many effects of misbehavior and anti-social attitudes to get an idea of their long-term repercussions. Impacts of disordered youth behavior include: Loss of productive, happy citizens Medical costs to individuals and the government because of injuries Costs [...]