In the 2024–2025 school year, Grand Area Mentoring served 77 local youth through consistent, one-on-one mentoring. Each match met weekly, focusing on connection, trust, and creating a better future for these promising young people. Mentored Moab youth face real challenges. They struggle in a variety of ways and: 88% qualified for free or reduced-price [...]

Summertime Opportunities Stay connected over the summer. Plan to meet, talk on the phone, Zoom, or send mail. Please complete a log after each meeting, available here: https://grandmentoring.org/mentor-log/ Summer Lunch School-based matches can rendezvous at summer lunch. GCSD will provide one onsite lunch and a take-home breakfast to each youth. Mentors, please bring your own meal. • Price: Mentees eat free • Dates: June 3rd through August 1st, excluding: June 19th and June 30th to July 6th • Time/place: 10:45-11:15 at Swanny Park (van service) • Time/place: 11:30-1:00 at the Middle School cafeteria • On Fridays, GCSD will provide take-home lunches and breakfasts for the weekend. Community-Based Matches You can get together at approved locations throughout Moab, including summer lunches and many more. Always follow Community-Based Mentoring protocols and complete mentor logs.

The Effects of Mentoring MENTOR, the National Mentoring Partnership, recently put together a letter to send in support of national funding for mentoring programs. Here are a few of the lines from that inspiring letter: “Mentoring serves as one of the few prevention strategies that can effectively address multiple risk and protective factors simultaneously.” “Youth mentoring programs… have the ability to prevent and help youth cope with depressive symptoms.” “Having a mentor has also been found to be associated with life satisfaction and positive well-being in adulthood.” “Fostering a sense of belonging and forging a sense of personal identity were among the most meaningful forms of support offered by mentors.”

A New Logo and Look! Thanks to a grant from the Carl George Bjorkman Foundation, Grand Area Mentoring has completed a brand renewal.

Mentor Defined: a Quintessential Paraprofessional Studies suggested paraprofessionals are well equipped to contribute in many helping arenas. In the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring, Dr. Jean Rhodes summarized research that highlighted the effectiveness and affordability of youth mentoring models.

Happy National Mentoring Month! We salute the mentors and mentees of Moab! Thank you for having the vision to see a better future for all. While many others only hope for the good, you create it.

This Month in Mentoring! December-June: Books for Mentees! Visit Back of Beyond Books. They have generously donated $25 vouchers to participating youth to buy books. Thank you, David and crew!

Advanced Mentoring On November 15th, Grand Area Mentoring and other local agencies brought Dr. Julia Pryce of Loyola University to Moab for staff and volunteer workshops. In two sessions serving about forty trainees, Dr. Pryce provided an introduction and details about the Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN) model. In this framework, mentors center themselves in [...]

Perhaps a host of challenges face your mentee – poor grades, social hurdles, tense family dynamics, grief, learning disabilities, or any number of difficulties.

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