Mentoring

Mentoring is one of the most powerful tools we have for supporting young people and helping them reach their full potential. A quality mentoring relationship can help youth develop a sense of self-efficacy, improve social skills, reduce risky behaviors, and increase academic success. Mentors can be positive role models and sounding boards, helping young people to navigate the challenges of adolescence and develop into happy, healthy, successful adults.

The Governor’s Prevention Partnership works with mentoring programs across Connecticut to provide training and technical assistance so that they can best support the young people they serve. In addition to our ongoing efforts to build statewide mentoring capacity, this page exists to provide resources and program materials to mentoring programs and individual mentors.

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Resources for Mentoring Providers & Organizers

Virtual Mentoring Resource Pack

With the rise of COVID-19, virtual mentoring has become more common than ever and has changed how many mentoring programs offer their services. To address this need, we offer a Virtual Mentoring Resource Pack containing a primer on virtual mentoring for mentoring coordinators, a guide to virtual etiquette for mentor and mentee sessions, and virtual mentoring agreements for both parents and mentors.

2022 School-Based Mentoring Showcase Playlist

The 2022 School-Based Mentoring Showcase shown a spotlight on how to leverage school-based mentoring to promote youth power. We are proud to offer recordings of these showcase sessions free of charge.

2021 CT Mentoring Summit Playlist

The 2021 CT Mentoring Summit brought together mentoring experts from around the country to share the latest advancements in the field. We are proud to offer recordings of summit sessions free of charge.

The Youth Mentoring Action Network

The Youth Mentoring Action Network practices critical mentoring, an innovative perspective that reframes the mentoring experience as a youth-centered one, with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, class, citizenship, gender, and sexuality.

The Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring

The Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring drives evidence-based innovation that advances mentoring practice and helps to bridge gaps in mental health care among young people, particularly in marginalized communities..

Resources for Mentors

Youth-Initiated Mentoring Toolkit

The Youth Initiated Mentoring Toolkit is designed to help mentoring practitioners understand what youth-initiated mentoring is and how to implement it. The toolkit consists of three parts. The first part describes youth-initiated mentoring models and reviews implementation considerations. The second part provides guidance on using social capital mapping to help youths referred to mentoring programs examine their social networks and identify prospective mentors. The final part discusses family engagement, a central theme in youth-initiated mentoring, and offers tools for improving family engagement.

6 Tips for Mentors to Recognize and Respond to Microaggressions

Microaggressions are everyday slights, snubs, or insults that communicate negative or hostile messages based on the recipient’s perceived marginalized group membership. This tip sheet offers advice on how mentors can respond to microaggressions.

Helping Young People Process Current Events

Helping youth process what they see and hear on the news has never been more difficult. These tips will help guide parents, mentors, caregivers, and other caring adults to have conversations with young people who want to discuss current events.

Check The Source!

The following are some tips that parents/caregivers, mentors, and other supportive adults can use to help young people learn to be careful consumers of news and identify when information may be more opinion than fact.

Our Partnership with MENTOR

We are proud to be the Connecticut affiliate of MENTOR. Our partnership allows us to leverage the resources and knowledge of MENTOR to bring the latest advancements in the field to mentors and mentoring programs around Connecticut.

MENTOR

MENTOR supports the effectiveness of new and existing MENTOR Affiliates to scale the mentoring’s geographic footprint and deepen the impact of the mentoring field.