Friends for Youth’s Mentoring Institute presents a unique tool for youth mentoring programs - the Mentoring Journal!
Research shows successful mentoring relationships are characterized by meaningful interactions that build trust, maintain boundaries, and keep expectations realistic combined with meaningful activities that are developmental instead of prescriptive.
The Mentoring Journal offers mentoring matches a structured yet flexible format to enjoy meaningful activities together, increasing the opportunity for meaningful interactions.
Mentoring Journals are sold in sets of two (2):
1 - 25 sets........$28/set
26 - 50 sets......$23/set
51 + sets..........$20/set
(fees for shipping & handling not included in these prices)
For program staff:
• an instrument for monitoring meetings
• a tool to assess relationship satisfaction
• an opportunity to measure activity levels
• a method to align individual goals with program goals
For mentors and mentees:
• a reflective, creative, and FUN experience
• chances to contribute to each other’s Journal
• memories of a year become memories for a lifetime!
“Friends for Youth’s Mentoring Journal is the most sophisticated and creative tool I’ve seen for structuring and documenting the life of a match. When fully utilized by mentors, the Mentoring Journal appears to provide a flexible, fun, and engaging mentoring activity, especially for older teens with whom it can be quite difficult to establish a connection. With sufficient training, support, and encouragement from program staff in its use, the Mentoring Journal may prove to be a valuable resource for community and school-based matches alike.”
--Michael J. Karcher, Ed.D., Ph.D., Co-Editor of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring
