Mentors Needed for Struggling Youth
Be A Mentor, Inc. (SF Bay Area)
Date: 13 hours ago
City: Hayward, CA
Contract type: Full time
The Be A Mentor Program pairs caring adult volunteers from the community with youth in one-to-one relationships. Mentors give of their time to be a friend, answering questions, and providing guidance. Mentors come from a variety of backgrounds and occupations and volunteer their personal time to be a caring friend to a youth. They serve as a role model, advocate, and resource. The purpose of the mentoring relationship is to help youth develop their full potential, both in and outside of the classroom.
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Sign up with Be A Mentor to be an Online Academic Mentor to a struggling youth.
We need your special skills and perspective to show a young person what opportunities they have and give them the confidence to work towards big goals.
An Academic Mentor is a trusted caring adult that spends at least one hour per week with their mentee using Be A Mentor’s Virtual Mentoring Platform.
Meetings focus on goal setting, homework help, and career exploration. While there may be a focus on homework help, these sessions are more than just tutoring. You form a personal relationship with your mentee to build resilience, social engagement, and a support network.
Virtual mentoring removes barriers of distance, requires no commute time, and can offer a flexible schedule. However, mentors must be in the United States. Due to our current background check system we are unable to accept anyone outside of the US at this time.
The COVID-19 Pandemic has exacerbated many of the issues that youth were facing before the pandemic.
Now youth are dealing with
As a mentor, you provide
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,
Sign up with Be A Mentor to be an Online Academic Mentor to a struggling youth.
We need your special skills and perspective to show a young person what opportunities they have and give them the confidence to work towards big goals.
An Academic Mentor is a trusted caring adult that spends at least one hour per week with their mentee using Be A Mentor’s Virtual Mentoring Platform.
Meetings focus on goal setting, homework help, and career exploration. While there may be a focus on homework help, these sessions are more than just tutoring. You form a personal relationship with your mentee to build resilience, social engagement, and a support network.
Virtual mentoring removes barriers of distance, requires no commute time, and can offer a flexible schedule. However, mentors must be in the United States. Due to our current background check system we are unable to accept anyone outside of the US at this time.
The COVID-19 Pandemic has exacerbated many of the issues that youth were facing before the pandemic.
Now youth are dealing with
- Isolation
- Anxiety
- Falling behind in their studies
- Low self esteem
- Disbelief in a positive future
As a mentor, you provide
- One-on-one attention
- Study skills
- Academic support
- Goal setting
- Encouragement for success
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