Here is a great resource:’Building Effective Strategies for Providing Quality Relationships – Youth Mentoring in Schools and Communities: A Guide for New Mentors’
This includes the 10 Principles of Effective Mentoring:
- Be a Friend
- Have Realistic Goals and Expectations
- Have Fun Together
- Give your Mentee Choice in Deciding on Activities
- Be Positive
- Let your mentee have much of the control over what the two of you talk about—and how you talk about it
- Listen
- Respect the trust your mentee places in you
- Remember that your relationship is with the youth, not the youth’s parent
- Remember that you are responsible for building the relationshipYou can download this valuable guide here:effective-strategies-for-providing-quality-youth-mentoring-in-schools2
REFERENCE: Building Effective Strategies for Providing Quality Relationships – Youth Mentoring in Schools and Communities: A Guide for New Mentors
Revised September 2007. Published by: The Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence & The National Mentoring Center at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
With support from: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice