Mentor Program

 

Resources for Mentors and Volunteers

Mentor Calender

Mentor Training Manual Resources (Just click to download the PFD)

• Mission Statement /Expectations
• What is my role as a Mentor?
• Setting and Reaching Goals
• Setting Goals
• Steps for Goal Setting or Decision Making
• Mentors Help Their Mentees in a Variety of Ways...
• A Future of Hope
• The Value of a Child
• Steps in Building A Mentoring Relationship
• Ice-Breaking Questions
• What will we talk about or do?
• 40 Developmental Assets
• The Power of Developmental Assets
• Asset-Building Ideas for Mentors
• Postive Things You Can Offer
• I Hear You

Below is a list of additional resource books that volunteers may to use, if you wish to read them just let me know. I’m here to serve and support you in mentoring,

Roger Greer
Lumpkin Family Connection
Challenge Course & Youth Development
(706)867-7047
rgreer@lumpkin.k12.ga.us

Mentor Resource Library

1. "Mentoring Teens: A Resource Guide" by Carol L Miller, M. Ed
2. "Mentoring for Meaningful Results" by Kristie Probst
3. "Stand by Me: The Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth" by Jean E. Rhodes       
4. "Because You Believed In Me" by Marcia A. Mc Mullen and Patricia M. Miller  
5. "Who Mentored You? The Person Who Changed My Life" by Matilda Raffa Cuomo
6. "The Kindness of Strangers" by Marc Freedman
7. "Becoming a Co-Pilot (for children)" by Robert P. Bowman, Ph.D & Susan C. Bowman, Ed. S.
8. "Becoming a Co-Pilot (for adolescents)" by Robert P. Bowman, Ph.D & Susan C. Bowman, Ed.
9. “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective TEENS” by Sean Covey
10. "Raising Children Who Think for Themselves" by Elisha Medhus
11. "What Kids Need to Succeed" by Peter Benson
12. "Building a Better Me" by Lutheran Brotherhood
13. "MENTORING students & young people" by Andrew Miller
14. "Sparks: How Parents Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers" by Peter Benson
15. "Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents" by NIDA
16. "Understanding 12-14-year-olds" by Margot Waddell
17. "Understanding 6-7-year-olds" by Corinne Aves
18. "Parent Talk" by Chick Moore
19. "The Tween Years" by Donna Corwin
20. "What Teens Need to SUCCEED" by Peter Benson, Judy Galbraith, Pamela Espeland

Here are a few on-line resources for mentoring:

NWREL’s National Mentoring Center
http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/index.php

Mentor
http://www.mentoring.org/

Search Institute
http://www.search-institute.org/

Mentor Partnership of Minnesota
http://www.mentoringworks.org

 

 

Lumpkin County Community Links:

LCHS Athletics’
http://lumpkin.ga.lch.schoolinsites.com/?PageName='Sports’

LCMS Home Football Games
http://lcms.lumpkin.k12.ga.us/08-09sports.html

NGCSU Sports
http://www.saintssports.com/landing/index

Lumpkin County 4H
http://www.ugaextension.com/lumpkin/4H/index.html

Georgia Pick & Bow
http://lcms.lumpkin.k12.ga.us/%7egpb/

Chestatee Library
www.chestateelibrary.org

Holly Theater
http://www.hollytheater.com/

 

 

 

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