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A Letter From a Little Brother
Resources for Mentors
Local Resources
Click here to access our agency's Yahoo Group - bigs2bigs
Archive of Monthly Safety Topics
Online Resources
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -- http://www.ed.gov/free/
National Mentoring Partnership -- Learn to mentor online at:
http://apps.mentoring.org/training/TMT/index.adp
The Search Institute offers many resources for parents and mentored children. Go to http://search-institute .org/downloads/
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
Geof Alred, The Mentoring Pocketbook
Janet Bode, Death is Hard to Live With: Teenagers Talk About How They Cope With Loss
Robert and Susan Bowman, Becoming a Co-Pilot: A Handbook for Mentors of Children/Adolescents
Gary D. Chapman, The Five Love Languages of Children and/or The Five Love Languages of Teenagers
Scott Cooper, Sticks and Stones: 7 Ways Your Child Can Deal With Teasing, Conflict, and Other Hard Times
Creative Mentoring; visit the Creative Mentoring Website for these three books:
- Mirror Mirror on the Wall
- Talk Time: Student and Mentor Conversations
- Connections from School to Career
Pegine Echevarria, For All Our Daughters: How Mentoring Helps Young Women and Girls Master the Art of Growing Up
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
Raymond B. Flannery, Jr., Preventing Youth Violence
Marc Freedman, The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Voluntarism
Michael Gurian, A Fine Young Man: What Parents, Mentors, and Educators Can Do To Shape Adolescent Boys Into Exceptional Men
Huang, Al Chung-Liang, Mentoring: The Tao of Giving and Receiving Wisdom
Tom Joyner, Thomas W. Dortch and 100 Black Men of America, The Miracles of Mentoring: The Joy of Investing In Our Future
Cyndi Klapperich, Mentoring Answer Book; this material was put together by BBBS of McHenry County, IL. It is an excellent resource for mentors which can be ordered at http://www.mentoringanswerbook.com. Copies are also available for loan from our office.
Heather Laird (Friends for Youth Mentoring Institute), Academic Activity Guide: a Learning Resource for Mentors and Mentees; this can be ordered from http://www.friendsforyouth.org. Click on "mentoring institute," then click on "products."
Mel Levine, All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student's Book About Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders
Linda Nason McElherne, Jump Starters
Resiliency in Action, Mentoring for Resiliency; this can be found at http://www.resiliency.com/
Jean Rhodes, Stand By Me: The Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth (The Family and Public Policy)
Ellen Rosenberg, Get A Clue!: A Parent's Guide to Communicating With Your Pre-teen
Erika V. Shearin Karres, Violence-Proof Your Kids Now: How to Recognize The 8 Warning Signs and What To Do About Them
Bill Shore, The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life By Giving Something Back; this book is not specifically about mentoring, but it is very interesting and inspirational.
Carter Sullivan, Independence 101: A Practical Guide for Young Adults (The Survival Series); this book and more can be found at http://www.thesurvivalseries.com and contains information about growing into an adult.
