YOUTH MENTORING

'Youth mentoring' is the process of matching caring, concerned adults with young people who may be at risk. The adult is usually unrelated and works as a volunteer through a community, school or church based social service program.
A more formal definition of youth mentoring is provided by the website InFed:
"The classic definition of mentoring is of an older experienced guide who is acceptable to the young person and who can help ease the transition to adulthood by a mix of support and challenge. In this sense it is a developmental relationship in which the young person is inducted into the world of adulthood (Hamilton, 1991; Freedman, 1995)."

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External links

★ MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership

★ MentorYouth.com - More Mentors for Youth Campaign

★ Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota

★ Kinship Mentoring Program

★ Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

★ Maryland Mentoring Partnership

★ International Mentoring Network Organization

★ The Stream E-mentoring (UK)

★ The DREAM Program, Inc.

★ Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area

★ Media Trust Youth Mentoring (UK)