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As it is one of the founding principles for our agency, the mentoring program is deeply rooted with tradition and experience. Mentoring is a one-to-one service provided by mature adults to youth and adolescents needing support, role modeling, guidance, and nurturing. The mentor functions both as a positive role model and advocate for a youth in his/her family system and community. In most cases, youth are matched with a mentor of the same gender and ethnic group. Mentors are rich with life experience and training in working with diverse populations of youth and adolescents. They receive extensive training in topics such as: appropriate activities, boundaries, communication, family dynamics, healthy relationships, and morals/ethics. Mentors are expected to establish good communication with parents or other caregivers, and converse with them on each visit. A mentor could be involved in a variety of activities with a youth. Some examples might be: recreational activities, school-related activities such as helping a youth with special assignments when the youth and family team believe it is appropriate, social skills and life skills development, peer/interpersonal relationship building, personal care/hygiene/exercise, increasing awareness of community resources, etc. Having a mentor may help in fostering a family’s relationship, while providing a trusted adult to assist with their youth/adolescents’ transition to adulthood.
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