Mentor Resources

Helping You Help Them

YMI equips you as a Mentor to make a difference with the student you are paired with. Along with in-person training sessions and meetings, we have these resources to help facilitate a healthy and productive discussion with your student.

Mentoring Stories

Share Your Life To Change A Life

5 Characteristics Of A Mentor – Introduction

Available – Not just in time but in presence.

Power Of Presence – Just being there is sometimes all it takes.

Listens – Young people need to know what they say is valuable.

Teachable – We have something to learn about life, whether we are 25 or 85.

Optimistic – Looking beyond the Present and seeing the worth in others.

Open-Minded- Does not judge. Accept people as they are.