Hi Mentors,
I just finished editing (after scanning) a great document that a mentor passed along to me. This mentor had attended the training in February on sexuality that was put on by Planned Parenthood. I know some of you were fortunate to have been there for this great training, but for those who didn't get to go, I have this great list of tips for delving into this topic with your mentee. Please let me know if I can forward a copy of it to you.
This same mentor also reminded me of a really amazing book that she and her mentee had decided to pick up: Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
This has something for EVERYONE and is a great, no-nonsense approach to learning about our bodies. Teens so need this information as they go through the inevitable changes of adolescence. Also, there is a lot for most any adult to learn as well.
I wish you all a very blessed Easter and/or Passover season!
Deanna
Friday, March 21, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Check Out Mark's Blog on Mentoring
If you haven't had a chance to check out Spectrum's Executive Director's latest post about mentoring, check it out at http://spectrumyouthandfamilyservicesblog.blogspot.com/
It's March...Where's Spring?
Hello Mentors!
As the title of this post will indicate, I'm just a bit antsy for spring. I can just feel the little extra warmth in the sunshine so I know it's coming, but I'm pretty impatient for it. I bet you all are feeling the same way. After this terribly long winter, my guess is that you're eager to get outside to do stuff with your mentees. I think if we all keep the faith for spring, we might just be able to coax it along a little more quickly.
We've been working on some new evaluative criteria for our mentoring program. Consultant Trine Bech is taking our program through the Results Based Accountability model. I encourage all of you to check this link to her website for more information: http://familyoutcomesvt.com/resources.html
Some of what will change for you as mentors is that we hope to have all of the 6 month evaluations done online with Survey Monkey. This will be pretty easy to accomplish with mentors as you all have access to computers. It will be trickier with the kids so I will be enlisting help from all of you to get your mentee to a computer if they can't access one any other way. Between public computer labs, your personal computer and my office, I think we'll be able to reach everyone to get the surveys done. Something else that will change are the questions on the surveys. There will less than 10 questions (I think the kids will have 4) on these surveys and my hope is that they will ask for meaningful information that is easily answered.
I'd love to hear any comments any of you may have about this so please feel free to share them.
As the title of this post will indicate, I'm just a bit antsy for spring. I can just feel the little extra warmth in the sunshine so I know it's coming, but I'm pretty impatient for it. I bet you all are feeling the same way. After this terribly long winter, my guess is that you're eager to get outside to do stuff with your mentees. I think if we all keep the faith for spring, we might just be able to coax it along a little more quickly.
We've been working on some new evaluative criteria for our mentoring program. Consultant Trine Bech is taking our program through the Results Based Accountability model. I encourage all of you to check this link to her website for more information: http://familyoutcomesvt.com/resources.html
Some of what will change for you as mentors is that we hope to have all of the 6 month evaluations done online with Survey Monkey. This will be pretty easy to accomplish with mentors as you all have access to computers. It will be trickier with the kids so I will be enlisting help from all of you to get your mentee to a computer if they can't access one any other way. Between public computer labs, your personal computer and my office, I think we'll be able to reach everyone to get the surveys done. Something else that will change are the questions on the surveys. There will less than 10 questions (I think the kids will have 4) on these surveys and my hope is that they will ask for meaningful information that is easily answered.
I'd love to hear any comments any of you may have about this so please feel free to share them.
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