Youth in Transition Toolkit:
Could the youth benefit from a mentoring experience to help them prepare for their best life?
A mentor can help youth reach work and life goals through support, counsel, friendship, reinforcement and constructive examples. Mentoring relationships can provide academic and career guidance as well as effective role models for leadership and communication.
Mentoring relationships may take different forms.
MENTOR Minnesota supports and collaborates with more than 200 mentor programs that serve 130,000 youth of all ages (primarily 8 to 18) in mentoring relationships across Minnesota.
For ideas on how to begin conversations about careers, consider career conversation starters from the American School Counselor Association.