Mentor Resources

Local Resources

Click here to access our agency's Yahoo Group - bigs2bigs

Archive of Monthly Safety Topics

Developmental Stages of Youth

Online Resources

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -- http://www.ed.gov/free/

The National Mentoring Center has a lending library at http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/library.html. Entering keywords such as "relationship" or "relationship development" should give you a good starting point.

National Mentoring Partnership -- Learn to mentor online at http://www.mentoring.org/be_a_better_mentor/be_a_better_mentor.adp?Entry=home

Search Institute -- "150 Ways to Show Kids You Care" -- http://www.search-institute.org/archives/150.htm

Books
Some of these books may be available at your local library. You can search their catalogs online from the library's website:

• Chesterfield County Public Library
• Richmond Public Library
• Henrico County Library
• Pamunkey Regional Library serving Goochland, Hanover, King William, and King & Queen counties

Alred, Geoff -- The Mentoring Pocketbook

Bode, Janet -- Death is Hard to Live With: Teenagers and How They Cope With Loss

Bowman, Robert and Susan -- Becoming a Co-Pilot: A Handbook for Mentors of Children/Adolescents

Chapman, Gary D. -- The Five Love Languages of Children/Teenagers

Cooper, Scott -- Sticks and Stones: 7 Ways Your Child Can Deal With Teasing, Conflict, and Other Hard Times

Creative Mentoring -- Visit http://www.creativementoring.org/cgi-bin/purchase.cgi?product=other for these three books:

• Mirror Mirror on the Wall (a book for mentees and their mentors)
• Talk Time: Student and Mentor Conversations
• Connections from School to Career

Dortch, Thomas W. & the 100 Black Men of America -- The Miracles of Mentoring: the Joy of Investing In Our Future

Echevarria, Pegine -- For All Our Daughters: How Mentoring Helps Young Women and Girls Master the Art of Growing Up

Faber, Adele -- How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

Flannery, Jr., Raymond B. -- Preventing Youth Violence

Friends for Youth -- Academic Activity Guide: a Learning Resource for Mentors and Mentees -- It can be ordered from http://www.friendsforyouth.org. Click on "mentoring institute," then click on "products."

Freedman, Marc -- The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Voluntarism

Gurian, Michael -- A Fine Young Man: What Parents, Mentors, and Educators Can Do To Shape Adolescent Boys Into Exceptional Men

Huang, Al C. -- Mentoring: The Tao of Giving and Receiving Wisdom

Klapperich, Cyndi -- Mentoring Answer Book -- put together by BBBS of McHenry County, IL, this is an excellent resource for mentors which can be ordered at http://www.mentoringanswerbook.com. Copies are also available for loan from our office.

Levine, Mel -- All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student's Book About Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders

Nason McElherne, Linda -- Jump Starters

Resiliency in Action -- Mentoring for Resiliency -- Go to http://www.resiliency.com/

Rhodes, Jean -- Stand By Me: The Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth (The Family and Public Policy)

Rosenberg, Ellen -- Get A Clue: A Parent's Guide to Communicating With Your Pre-teen

Shearin Karres, Erika V. -- Violence-Proof Your Kids Now: How to Recognize the 8 Warning Signs and What To Do About Them

Shore, Bill -- The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life By Giving Something Back (this book is not specifically about mentoring but is very interesting and inspirational)

Survival Series, The -- Independence 101 -- [from http://www.thesurvivalseries.com -- this book contains information about growing into an adult]