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How to Create a Strong Relationship
January is National Mentoring Month. We will be posting articles of interest through out the month. This article from The Chronicle of Evidence Based Mentoring, published December 12, 2014, tells why a...
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Winter Doldrums? Bust the Boredom
Try an Indoor Snowball Blizzard From Kris, our Executive Director: It’s the end of winter and kids (and grown ups, too) can get stuck in the winter doldrums when it’s too cold to be outside, or we’ve...
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National Mentoring Center Opens
Federally-funded resource center will help mentoring programs meet national standards The National Mentoring Resource Center has three components: an interactive website, no-cost specialized technical...
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The Real Mentoring Gap
According to a recent study, children from affluent families have more informal mentors and the relationships last longer than youth from “bottom income sectors.” While that makes us uncomfortable, we...
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The Power of ONE
You can be the change a child needs to succeed! Thrivent Financial recently published “It Just Takes One,” an article by Michelle Crouch on the power of mentoring and the difference caring adults can...
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10 Ways to Show Kids You Care
Search Institute lists 150 ways to make a positive difference in the life of a young person at search-institute.org. Here’s a sampling published in the June 2015 issue of Thrivent magazine: • Give them...
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International Day of Friendship: a Day for Best Friends
From Kris, our executive director: “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer. (Bernard C. Meltzer was a United...
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Some helpers more effective than others
Common Factors in Helping Relationships There are certain “common factors” cutting across all helping relationships that seem to account for most of the improvements. The Chronicle of Evidence-Based...
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Bullying: What Has Changed in 30 Years?
Researcher Wendy Troop-Gordon, North Dakota State University, wrote this piece for ND Compass. Read more for common myths about bullying, current research and what the newest bully research says. Wendy...
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Coaches’ Mentoring Challenge
Big 10 Football Coaches Challenge Fans to be Mentors The Big Ten Conference is joining MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) and local nonprofit partners across the country to launch the...
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