The Mentor’s Field Guide “Volunteer mentors, practitioners, and researchers will value this book for its rich up-to-date coverage, clear writing, and common sense guidance.”
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Jean Rhodes, Ph.D., MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership Professor of Psychology and Research Director, Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring
Jill K. Spineti, president and CEO, The Connecticut Mentoring Partnership and Governor’s Prevention Project
“The ultimate playbook and required resource for any mentor (or mentoring practitioner) looking to gain insights from lessons learned in order to execute best practices.” Stephen Powell, executive director, Mentoring USA
“An effective youth worker is a mentor. The Mentor’s Field Guide is a necessary and highly useful resource that will help youth workers fulfill that role wisely.” Irv Katz, president and CEO, The National Human Services Assembly and its National Collaboration for Youth
“A field guide for mentors! A brilliant concept for teachers and others who perform double duty as informal mentors, too.” Barbara Lehrner Canter, Co-founder, 1000 Women for Mentoring
The Mentor’s Field Guide: Answers You Need to Help Kids Succeed is a one-stop resource for mentors. Using a straightforward question-and-answer format, it addresses basic but vital issues: how and why mentoring works; how to respond to common issues that come up in mentoring relationships (like bullying); to tough issues, like alcohol or drug use, depression, or family problems; and to the challenge of helping young people develop the skills they need to claim their dreams. The Mentor’s Field Guide delivers the advice you need to be the kind of mentor young people deserve . . . and you aspire to be.
The Mentor’s Field Guide
“This guide adds a uniquely valuable resource to the field by offering mentors (and program coordinators, too) tips, tools and strategies to deepen their commitment to the youth they serve.”
“. . . a special gift to everyone involved in mentoring—a must read for all mentors who seek to do well by the children they aim to help.” Rev. W. Wilson Goode Sr., founder of the Amachi Mentoring Program
The Mentor’s Field Guide ANSWERS YOU NEED TO HELP KIDS SUCCEED Gail Manza and Susan K. Patrick