About Mentoring
What is Mentoring?
Mentoring is simple yet powerful. It’s about building a committed relationship, learning from one another, and increasing connections to community.
Relationship
A mentoring relationship can grow between two people, or groups of people. It occurs in formal and informal relationships.
Learning
Some mentoring relationships focus on building one or more skills, like literacy. More often, mentoring develops life skills in a youth, like the 40 Development Assets – good boundaries, good time management, strong communication, positive peer relationships, etc.
Connecting
A strong connection between an adult and a young person can encourage the youth to seek and build connections elsewhere – like school, work or family. This process of becoming more connected is vital to a young person’s development and success.
