Mentees

Building Relationships

• Making Connections
  Innovation Partnership and Portland State University
  http://makingconnections.ceed.pdx.edu
  Making Connections is an innovative, online, relationship-building tool designed specifically for adults who work with kids at risk of dropping out of school.
• Tips for Volunteers
  YouthFriends
  http://www.youthfriends.org/getinvolved/TipsForVolunteers.html
• Building Relationships: A Guide for New Mentors
  National Mentoring Center at NWREL
  Technical Assistance Packet #4
  http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/topic_pubs.php

Tools for Mentoring Adolescents

• Tools for Mentoring Adolescents
  Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota and the Search Institute
  www.mentoringworks.org
  Modules include: Training Needs for Mentoring Adolescents; Making the Most of Mentoring an Adolescent; Aren't Mentors for Little Kids?; Building Trust Attachment with Your Mentee; Let's Get Real-Positive Communication; Setting Mentoring Boundaries; and Influence of Culture on Mentoring Relationships
• Mentoring in the Middle – A Training and Resource Guide for Mentoring Middle School Students
  Creative Mentoring (Connecting Generations)
  This resource focuses on the unique challenges of mentoring the "Middler child" (youth between the ages of 10 and 15). In addition to mentoring strategies, topics include developmental stages, adolescence today versus adolescence as you remember it, social issues, risk factors and risky behaviors, and life skills that Middlers need. This manual stresses the creative mentoring process: building higher purpose into all mentoring activities, mentoring in the present moment, teaching universal values, and showing unconditional love/acceptance.

Working with Special Populations of Youth

• Resources for Mentoring Youth in Foster Care, Children of Prisoners, and Youth with Disabilities
  US Department of Education
  www.edmentoring.org/online_res11.html
• Best Practices Guide for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities
  http://pyd.org/national-center/GuideBookAssembly_medium150.pdf
• Mentoring Immigrant and Refugee Youth
  MENTOR
  http://www.mentoring.org/find_resources/elements_of_effective_practice/
  New section to the toolkit "How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program Using the Elements of Effective Practice"
• Mentoring Sexual Minority Youth
  National Mentoring Center at NWREL
  Technical Assistance Packet #2
  http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/topic_pubs.php

Youth & Grief

• Strategies for Supporting Grieving Youth
  America Learns
  http://www.americalearns.net/thestrategy.htm
• Grief Support
  The Dougy Center for Grieving Children & Families
  http://www.dougy.org/default.asp?pid=6863519
  Identifies grief responses at various developmental stages and ideas for helping kids, teens and young adults.