Mentoring Troubled Youth
Adolescents from single parent homes, homes where the parents are unstable and adolescents with emotional problems benefit greatly from mentoring by a single caring adult.
Mentoring is a recent method developed by social workers to help troubled youth.
A stable adult steps in when the family of the troubled adolescent does not have the stability or ability to care for the young person.
The mentor helps to guide the child in the right direction.
Mentoring is provided to troubled youth by stable adults who give them the social and psychological support that they are unable to find in their troubled homes.
The Big Brother Big Sister program is a successful example of a program where troubled youth are mentored by stable persons older than them.
These mentors act as a role model to troubled adolescents who have no one to look up to.
Mentoring helps children from troubled homes find a single healthy relationship with a caring and encouraging adult.
Mentoring is still at its infancy and has not matured into a large scale organized form of social support.
The program depends on donations and volunteers.
At first adolescents met their mentors only one or two times a month which was insufficient to develop a meaningful relationship.
Experts feel that a daily meeting is required for the child to really look up to his or her mentor.
The effects of mentoring troubled youth are that they transform their life by looking up to their mentors.
The Big Brother Big Sister program in New York proved that adolescents who met their mentors regularly stayed away from substance abuse, attended school on a regular basis and did not show psychological problems of depression or withdrawal from society.
The children became more responsible, more trusting developed self esteem and got along in society without problems.
Experts believe that mentoring needs to work with families and not the adolescents alone.
Troubled parents should be helped by social service organizations and gradually taught to become mentors of their owned troubled children.
A troubled adolescent who returns to a troubled family after interaction with a mentor may not benefit as much as a troubled family working together to overcome their problems.
Teachers are encouraged to mentor troubled adolescents.
Teachers interact with their children every day and are in a better position to make a difference in their lives than others.
Encouragement and positive interaction with teachers in inner city schools have changed the life and attitudes of many young people.
Teachers can also encourage talents to build self esteem in troubled young people or teach them a new activity that gives them a new focus.
When there is no organized mentoring program, schools can helping mentoring adolescents with the help of teachers.
The church is another place where troubled youth can find mentors.
Youth pastors or senior members of the congregation can help the less fortunate by mentoring their teenage children.
Mentoring troubled adolescents will help them transform their way of life and give them a positive and happy future.
Mentoring is a recent method developed by social workers to help troubled youth.
A stable adult steps in when the family of the troubled adolescent does not have the stability or ability to care for the young person.
The mentor helps to guide the child in the right direction.
Mentoring is provided to troubled youth by stable adults who give them the social and psychological support that they are unable to find in their troubled homes.
The Big Brother Big Sister program is a successful example of a program where troubled youth are mentored by stable persons older than them.
These mentors act as a role model to troubled adolescents who have no one to look up to.
Mentoring helps children from troubled homes find a single healthy relationship with a caring and encouraging adult.
Mentoring is still at its infancy and has not matured into a large scale organized form of social support.
The program depends on donations and volunteers.
At first adolescents met their mentors only one or two times a month which was insufficient to develop a meaningful relationship.
Experts feel that a daily meeting is required for the child to really look up to his or her mentor.
The effects of mentoring troubled youth are that they transform their life by looking up to their mentors.
The Big Brother Big Sister program in New York proved that adolescents who met their mentors regularly stayed away from substance abuse, attended school on a regular basis and did not show psychological problems of depression or withdrawal from society.
The children became more responsible, more trusting developed self esteem and got along in society without problems.
Experts believe that mentoring needs to work with families and not the adolescents alone.
Troubled parents should be helped by social service organizations and gradually taught to become mentors of their owned troubled children.
A troubled adolescent who returns to a troubled family after interaction with a mentor may not benefit as much as a troubled family working together to overcome their problems.
Teachers are encouraged to mentor troubled adolescents.
Teachers interact with their children every day and are in a better position to make a difference in their lives than others.
Encouragement and positive interaction with teachers in inner city schools have changed the life and attitudes of many young people.
Teachers can also encourage talents to build self esteem in troubled young people or teach them a new activity that gives them a new focus.
When there is no organized mentoring program, schools can helping mentoring adolescents with the help of teachers.
The church is another place where troubled youth can find mentors.
Youth pastors or senior members of the congregation can help the less fortunate by mentoring their teenage children.
Mentoring troubled adolescents will help them transform their way of life and give them a positive and happy future.
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