Bench Mark Program的动态

Which has created more positive change in your life: 1.) A short-term mentor who helped you out for 3-6 months and then faded out of your life? 2.) A long-term (multi-year) mentor who showed up and became a consistent, dependable resource to you? If you answered the latter, then shouldn't we focus on adapting our youth mentoring programs to support long-term, positive, multi-year mentorship? Our current-youth serving systems (government and private) are not designed to encourage long-term mentorship. Our current systems support short-term, evidence based programs, which operate on 3-6 month time frames, bound by funding limitations. Providing intensive support, creating positive change, and then returning youth back to their lives with little to no way to keep engaging with mentors/coaches/counselors who they have come to trust. How we'll change that is still a mystery to me. But we're working on it... Here's a start: create a way for kids to come back to your program after they "graduate," if they need more help. https://lnkd.in/eDYG_Uz9