Relationships matter. Make a connection with a young person in your community. A powerful mentoring relationship can change lives. It can change yours.
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Aliyah reminds me a lot of my younger self. She’s a brilliant girl who doesn’t have any issue making good grades. So, at first glance, people think this young person […]
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My name is Quiana Jenkins and I am a passionate advocate for mentoring. Mentoring sets the foundation in someone’s life to have solid career direction and advice to assist with […]
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My initial reason for becoming a mentor is because I believe that teenagers should have someone they can talk to and lean on in hard times. I genuinely wish I […]
See their storyMy story with mentorship and why you should create your own: In life, what matters most is not what our obstacles are but how we see them, how we react […]
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Five years ago, newlyweds Brenda Fike and husband Scott Spector moved here to take over running her father-in-law’s Bay Imprint business in Easton. Not knowing many people at that time, […]
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I’m excited to share with you all the story of just one of my mentors, LaMarr. I felt this was important for me to share this because so many times […]
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It wasn’t until I was well into my graduate education that I began to realize something had been missing from my educational experience. A mentor. I am a Black female […]
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Alicia and Keyla are two years into their mentoring relationship and counting. The pair, who met in 2016, credit each other with the success they’ve found in their academic, professional, […]
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K–12 students spend up to 35 hours a week in school—that’s almost 1,300 hours in a school year. And teachers are there through all of it! They spend hours both inside and outside of the classroom shaping new generations, one student at a time, often while lacking basic resources. This #TeacherAppreciationWeek, celebrate the educators in your community and help them by working with them to enrich young people’s lives. Check out Chapter 7 of Becoming a Better Mentor to learn more: mentoring.org/bettermentor
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Our mission is to fuel the quality and quantity of mentoring relationships for Maryland and DC’s young people and to close the mentoring gap.
K–12 students spend up to 35 hours a week in school—that’s almost 1,300 hours in a school year. And teachers are there through all of it! They spend hours both inside and outside of the classroom shaping new generations, one student at a time, often while lacking basic resources. This #TeacherAppreciationWeek, celebrate the educators in your community and help them by working with them to enrich young people’s lives. Check out Chapter 7 of Becoming a Better Mentor to learn more: mentoring.org/bettermentor
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Movement is medicine. Being active is a key component to building healthier and happier communities, and engaging in sport and play offers so many organic and unique points of connection. Get active this National Physical Fitness and Sports Month and invite the young people around you to do the same! Need ideas to get started? Check out https://bit.ly/MayFitnessSports for more resources! #MentoringMatters #MoveInMay #MoveYourWay ...
Do you use AI in your youth mentoring work? Are you thinking about it? Are you worried about how AI might change the mentoring youth receive or how your program does things? Regardless of how you feel about AI, MENTOR would love to hear from you as part of our new survey about the use of AI tools in youth mentoring programs.
Share your thoughts with us before May 8th! https://bit.ly/AImentorsurvey ...