The Mentor's Field Guide: Answers You Need to Help Kids Succeed - Softcover

Designed to be a one-stop resource for mentors, this guide doesn't flinch from the tough problems. Using a helpful question-and-answer format, it addresses issues that include How do I connect with my mentee? What if I don't like my mentee? and If my mentee is in serious trouble, how far do I go to help him? Organized topically by issue, the book provides mentors with advice they need both in the ever-changing and sometimes challenging mentoring relationship and within the parameters of a mentoring program. For mentors, the book addresses the rewards as well as the risks of mentoring, while program leaders can use the challenges and solutions to help mentors understand their roles and equip them to handle tough mentoring issues.

Gail Manza is a social worker and an advocate for children and youth. She is a former CEO of MENTOR, a former senior vice president at United Way of America, and the former executive director of the National Mentoring Partnership. She is a founding chair of the Federal Mentoring Council and its National Mentoring Working Group, a cofounder of 1000 Women for Mentoring, and continues to serve MENTOR as an emeritus fellow. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Susan K. Patrick is a youth development and mentoring consultant, the founder of the Connecticut Mentoring Partnership, and has developed numerous mentoring guides and toolkits. She is the former president of the Governor’s Prevention Partnership in Connecticut, a statewide public-private partnership, cochaired by the Governor and a business CEO with a mission is to keep Connecticut’s youth safe, successful, and drug free. She lives in Rockport, Massachusetts.