Friday, February 5, 2010

Pre Mid-Year Resources!

I hope you had a wonderful week.
We got some snow, trained a mentor, matched a mentee with a mentor.

February Objectives
-Attend Mid Year
-Have your supervisors complete evaluations (your Site Director should be on top of this)

If you're still recruiting:
-Interview and train 3 mentors (remember - though I think it works well to do a small group mentor training, if scheduling is difficult, feel free to do a one-on-one mentor training. Check the Documents page for my outline)
-Collect fingerprints for 3 mentors
-Check in with any mentors, mentees, and caregivers who are matched

If you're not recruiting any more:
-Call all of your mentors, mentees, and caregivers

A Resource:
Michigan Mentor: http://www.michigan.gov/mentormichigan/0,1607,7-193--211411--,00.html
I pulled up the specific link about Men in Mentoring, since I know we all have a harder time getting men through the process to mentor our boys.

Of Interest:
Echoes of Incarceration video by children who have had incarcerated parents: http://web.mac.com/jeremyrobins/EIOF/home/home.html (i ordered the whole short video)

See you next week!
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