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Mentoring Advocacy Toolkit:
ReplyDeleteThe mentoring toolkit blueprint is a tool used to successfully assist mentoring programs by providing ways to improve programs and ideas. This toolkit is used to inspire and promote the goodness of mentors in hopes of attaining qualified mentors who can make a world of a difference in individuals lives. These people must be leaders and inspire daily: great mentors are generally good leaders. Promoting mentors is a must. There are several methods that can be used to do so. Encouraging others to get involved is a must. Becoming a mentor is a great idea. In my life I have managed to take up this word several times. Not only do I participate in mentoring activities at school, I also play one at home. My family is extremely large: with this being said, I have many cousins who look up to me. I continue to maintain a poised attitude and to be a leading example in their lives.
There are six evidence-based standards addressing mentor and mentee recruitment; screening; training; matching; monitoring and support; and closure. Mentoring is one of the most best ways to help affect children. Children look up to alot of people and why not have a program with good people so the youth can look up to them.According ti Dr Jean Rhodes 30 percent of all U.S. children will be immigrants or children of immigrants by 2015, and are likely to have a lot of stressful problems. I think this is so true with the Haiti children who survived with parents who didnt they need mentors tohelp them with the challenges of like. This toolkit provides service for people who want to start mentoring programs and people who wants to make there programs better. I am also a mentor for my youner siste and cousins. I am the first person in my family to actually got to college and finish. My younger sister really loks up to me and because she looks up to me and comes to me fr advice, she motivates me to be better.
ReplyDeleteThe mentoring advocacy toolkit is used to help develop successful mentoring programs and also help improve existing programs. Some of the tips offered that I was able to come across was allowing for local businesses to become involved for support. Mentoring is a great idea and will not only help the individual being mentored but the mentors themselves. To mentor someone is a privilege because there is another person who is looking up to you. I always think of this because I have many younger siblings and I want to make sure that I set a good example so they themselves can do great in life. If I were to set a bad example they may feel that it is the norm and will not strive to do better. I also enjoy mentoring in girl scouts because it is a great way for young girls to see what they can become when they get older. I always had my mom to look up to but it would have been nice to have someone who was younger. It would have been easier to relate to them as opposed to my mother who I felt at the time did not understand what I was going through. I encourage everyone to have this experience at least once because in my opinion it can help you learn so much about yourself.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.flamentoring.org/advocacy_tool_kit.php
The Mentoring Advocacy Toolkit was a great packet to read. Mentoring can be very effective in people’s lives. Teenagers are a great age to have mentors. I really did not know that Georgia’s youth had that big of a problem. My high school teachers were my mentors. Both of my English teachers were the reason I wanted to teach and become a big part in education. They were great ladies and they made teaching effective and fun. I still enjoy reading English and African American Literature. Now that I am older, one of my mentors is Michelle Obama. She defines the role of being a lady and the First Lady. As social workers, mentors make a positive difference by setting the example for positive characteristics and leadership. Having someone to look up to and admire, can help another person blaze their own positive trail to better things. This toolkit is a great way to understand and get involved with mentoring. The article states the problem and the target population. The toolkit offers information on how bills are passed on the federal level. The article offers information on how to work with Legislation and resources on advocating.
ReplyDeleteThe Mentoring Advocacy Toolkit is of great importance in helping develop great mentoring programs. Mentoring is not only a great importance to the people but also the mentor. This helps everyone develop better social skills of everyone in need of mentoring. I especially know that the mentoring program will be essentially important for immigrants who come over to our country unaware of a lot normality’s in America. There will definitely be allot of individuals who will need mentoring after the destruction in Hatti. Many individuals speak of how mentors gave them the lesions and opportunities for being successful people. Important people such as the president and his wife. This article offers allot of information on advocating. In my professional opinion, this article has also made me realize how important it is for myself to mentor individuals that can make the same mistakes I have made. “I was always taught that everyone is responsible for the one's who come behind them.”
ReplyDeleteThis toolkit is an excellent resource for all social service workers, legislators, parents, and concerned citizens. This tool breaks down the issue of mentoring so well. It explains the problem,how mentoring can help, how legislators can support mentoring, how we can help,how this all works, the 6 B's of working with most elected officials, how to write letters to our legislators, how to prepare for a legislative site visit, online advocacy resources, legislative terms, and how to start now. By explaining all of these factors, the tool gives everyone all the information needed to support mentoring programs. The tool does a great job of explaining the problem. By listing the percentages of students who have participated in different delinquent activities, the tool convinces skeptic legislators of the need for mentoring programs. The tool goes on to answer all of the questions one may have about mentoring programs.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the information given. Mentoring programs are needed, and in my professional opinion, are very successful. They provide youth with guidance and alternative activities (not delinquent) to participate in. This tool does an excellent job of appealing to readers.
Mentoring Advocacy Toolkit is a tool kit providing information about mentoring in Georgia. The article is broken down into different parts. These parts are the problem, how mentoring can help, how legislators can support mentoring, how can you help, how does this all work, the 6 B's of working with most elected officials, tips for writing letters to your legislators, sample letter, preparing for a legislative site visit, online advocacy resources, definition of legislative terms, start now, commitment form, and notes.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning the article opens up by telling what the problem in Georgia is. The problem is that in Georgia there are 14,481 children in state custody, 7,975 living in foster care, and 1,312 children living in group homes. 95 percent of incarcerated women are parents which leave more children in the hands of other people to take care of them. These children need positive role models. Every child can benefit from a one on one relationship with a caring adult.
Mentoring has a positive effect on peer relationships, social skills and classroom behavior. Young people who had been involved in successful mentoring relationships were: less likely to start using illegal drugs, less likely to start using alcohol, less likely to report hitting someone. They also earned higher grades, skipped fewer classes and missed fewer days of school. They felt more confident in their ability to complete their schoolwork, and showed an increase in the quality of relationships with parents and their peers.
Legislators can support mentoring by supporting the existing state mentoring partnership, which an impact mentoring programs across the state. Dedicate streams of funding for mentoring. Grant administrative leave to government employees who mentor in formal mentoring programs. Take an active role in promoting national mentoring month. Support legislation that is mentoring friendly. Support initiatives to give every mentoring program access to affordable federal background checks for every mentor.
We can help by advocating, sending letters or emails to legislators, invite your legislators to visit your program to see the impact, call or visit legislators to educate them on mentoring, call or write them to ask for support on a specific piece of legislation related to mentoring that can be introduced.
The toolkit also includes sample letters talking points, resources and ideas for advocating for young people in Georgia.
The advocacy toolkit is used to help in the assisting of mentoring programs for the youth. The toolkit discussed six evidence-based standards addressing mentor and mentee recruitment, which were screening; training; matching; monitoring and support; and closure. The toolkit also stated that you should let local business become a part of the programs, so that they can support it with finances and maybe other resources as well. I think that mentoring is a great way to work with the youth and ensure that they will be on the correct path as they grow and mature in life. This gives them someone to idealize other than street figures or even rappers, and the relationship is more personal. This toolkit is a great piece of material for someone that is thinking of starting up he or she’s own mentoring program, or making an existing program better than it already is.
ReplyDeleteThe advocacy toolkit is used to produce and enhance well equiped, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and effective mentors. The advocacy toolkit is also used to with already established mentors as well as newcomers. Mentoring is needed in our society because the family dynamic has changed. For example, two parent households are decreasing, single parent mother homes are increasing, and usually the parent has to work full time hours or more to provide for their family. With this change, we need more role models in our communities and school systems. This technique is used in the state of Georgia, but can work anywhere. Also, this toolkit gives great examples of how to work with administrators, legislature, and writing techniques.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.flamentoring.org/advocacy_tool_kit.php
The Mentoring Advocacy Toolkit's purpose is to develop and assist mentoring programs that would better benefit the youth in school and in other aspects of life. The article discussed certain issues that Georgia's youth are facing and ways to help them improve. The toolkit offers a lot of information such as getting involved in mentoring programs and the methods that can be used to support mentoring programs. Some methods include getting business leaders involved, as well as getting legislator's involved and writing advocacy letters to your legislator's. Then the article also explains how to gather resources. The article offers a lot of valuable information and explains why mentoring programs are important. Mentoring programs have been shown to improve people's ways of life and I believe that they aid in the improvement of our youth.
ReplyDeleteThis is a blueprint of ideas that youth mentors use to have activities and exercises ready available when it comes to interacting with their men-tees. I think that this is a fresh idea that would be beneficial to mentors who have kind of hit a stagnant point with exactly what to do when it comes to interacting children.It is a useful tool that can be used by all adult mentors. The goals of the tool kit include: promoting healthy physical activity, encourage good eating habits, while trying to minimize time with electronic devices. This is so that men-tees can enjoy more meaningful activities that do not include computers or electronics. Mentors have the power to mold lives ,and having credible and effective resources it makes it easier to provide the best possible mentors services possible.The youth of America are our most prized possession and it is our job as adult mentors to develop them into the future leaders that they are destined to be.
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