You Can Be A Mentor

Steps to Becoming a Mentor and Mentor Responsibilities

• Complete and Submit a Volunteer Application (Download Now)
• Attend an initial two hour training and additional trainings offered throughout the year (Click below for dates)
• Agree to the right of student confidentiality
• Be open and honest about your expectations and abilities
• Follow all PIE, school, and district policies and guidelines
• Participate in projects with enthusiasm and commitment
• Fulfill time and task commitments
• Sign in and out at the front desk each time they visit school
• Maintain privacy with regards to school and student information

Mentors understand the need to assume a number of different roles during the course of a mentoring relationship, but successful mentors also share the same basic qualities:

• A sincere desire to be involved with a young person
• Respect for youth
• Active listener
• Empthy
• See solutions and opportunities
• Ability to accept different points of view

Things mentors do:

• Mentors help young people set career goals and start taking steps to realize them.
• Mentors can introduce young people to industry professionals, find internships and locate job possibilities.
• Mentors introduce young people to professional resources and organizations they may not know about.
• Mentors can help their mentees learn how to seek and keep jobs.