Meeting Youth Where They Are If a home’s foundation is ignored, it will never sit properly. Just so, all learning rests upon prior knowledge and experience. Finding out where your mentee is, where they stand, takes time and patience....
Becoming a Better Mentor Last year, the National Mentoring Partnership, published Becoming a Better Mentor. This excellent handbook goes through many elements of improving your mentoring skills and relationship. It’s available for free here: www.mentoring.org/resource/becoming-a-better-mentor/ Chapter 1, Providing Emotional...
Advanced Mentor Training Self-Care and Regulation Dr. Nan Marquardt will join us to present on a new topic that puts mentors first. She will bring practical tips to help us regulate our own nervous systems, better understand our own...
Self-Care for Kids It’s not too early to start talking with your mentee about how you take care of your body and mind. Some strategies you can explore and model in your mentoring sessions might include: Take a break....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...