Group Mentoring
- Groups can provide a safe place for youth to process thoughts and feelings that help normalize their experiences, challenges, and developmental milestones, and reduce isolation and gain healthy peer support.
- Provides youth with positive, growth inducing relationships with supportive adults and peers through the mentoring process to provide relationship-building opportunities, reduce social isolation, increase empathy, etc. Helps youth gain a feeling of normalization and improve peer relationships.
Mentor Model:
- Two Adult mentors are matched with a group of up to 8 mentees (Ages 6-17)
- Matches meet in the community for 2 hours per week for 16 weeks (Fall & Spring) or 8 weeks (Summer)
- Mentors will be guided in how to engage youth in discussions and activities. Activities help youth share common experiences and gain competencies with life skills, relationships, communication, feelings, school engagement, etc.
Interested?
For more information, please contact Program Administrator Devin Washington, dwashington@newarkymca.org or fill out the application below.