How to Help Your Mentee Through the Summer June, July, and August represent a wonderful opportunity to recharge your batteries and break away from the weekly mentoring routine. Volunteers and students often return in September with new verve and closeness....
Helping Children Through Tough Times Utah ranks highest in the nation in antidepressant use. According to the Utah state website, “From 2012 to 2014, Utah's age-adjusted suicide rate was 20.8 per 100,000 persons. This is an average of 557 suicides...
Training Invitation – Ethics in Mentoring: 5 Principles to Help Mentors Build Meaningful Relationships Ethical guidelines provide a useful framework for mentors who may occasionally face challenges and questions based on issues such as safety, boundaries, responsibility, and diversity. This...
A Link Between Tourism & Mentoring The American outdoor industry is booming, and Moab’s need for youth mentors continues to grow as the region attracts greater numbers of tourists to its natural wonders. Additional visitors apply high demand to the...
The Effects of Mentoring The time you invest in mentoring boosts the probability that your mentee will like school more, make better choices, and succeed later in life. If the Josh Shipp video Grand Area Mentoring shared via email didn’t...
Mentoring + Attitudes about School Research from 2013 in the Journal of Youth Development: Bridging Research and Practice by MacArthur (et al) looked at the effects mentoring had on school-related variables such as attitudes toward teachers, classes, and school, “which...
January is National Mentoring Month! This is a time to expand and strengthen opportunities for top-notch mentoring in the United States. 17 eager students in Moab wait to be matched with a mentor, and we aim to find new mentors...
You Matter Long-term mentoring relationships produce more positive results for at-risk children than shorter ones. If a relationship lasts less than six months, it can even be detrimental to a child! That’s why we ask volunteers and students to commit...
Let's Redefine Value! A 25-year longitudinal study by the University of Florida found that self-confidence impacts life path and rates of success. That’s no surprise. According to a Gallup publication1 by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie, “people with higher self-confidence...