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The Change Agents Mentoring Program (CAMP) builds long-lasting, caring relationships between youth and mentors, fostering each youth’s individual growth and potential. The Change Agents Mentoring Programs helps to empower youth in our community to make positive life choices that enable them to maximize their potential.

Mentoring can help youth as they go through challenging life transitions, including dealing with stressful changes at home or transitioning to adulthood. Mentoring, at its core, guarantees young people that there is someone who cares about them, assures them they are not alone in dealing with day-to-day challenges, and makes them feel like they matter. Research confirms that quality mentoring relationships have powerful positive effects on young people in a variety of personal, academic, and professional situations. Ultimately, mentoring connects a young person to personal growth and development, and social and economic opportunity. Yet one in three young people will grow up without this critical asset.

What Mentors Do:

  • Serve as a positive role model and friend

  • Take the lead in supporting a young person through an ongoing, one-on-one relationship

  • Build the relationship by planning and participating in activities together

  • Help set goals and work toward accomplishing them

Mentor Qualities:

  • Willing listener

  • Encouraging and supportive

  • Patient and flexible

  • Tolerant and respectful of individual differences


Mentor Commitment:

  • Make a one-year commitment

  • Spend a minimum of 4 hours per month one-on-one with a mentee

  • Communicate with the mentee biweekly

    Mentors are to connect with mentees twice a month. Mentors will take mentees through the book “Goals” by Brian Tracy. Conversation starters will be given to the mentor during orientation. Both mentor and mentee will be asked (if needed) to use a conversation starter before each meeting. Mentors will be asked to provide a fun activity quarterly. We ask that mentors provide quarterly job shadowing opportunities. 


    Next Steps:

    • Complete Mentor Application HERE.

    Upon completing the above mentioned applications, you will be contacted by a Youth Coordinator to schedule your Mentor Orientation (online or in-person) and your first meeting with mentee.