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Dr. Carla Herrera and Michael Garringer  \nMade possible with the support of JPMorgan Chase  \nPREFACE  \nWelcome to Becoming a Better Mentor: Strategies to Be There for Young People. We hope this resource will help you and other caring adults adopt a true “mentoring mindset” and build your skills for supporting young people. Much of the work of MENTOR has focused on over the years has been helping mentoring programs, and the professionals who work in those spaces, build their knowledge and improve their services. You may be familiar with our cornerstone resource, The Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring TM, which has been offering guidance to mentoring professionals for over a quarter century. But while that resource has been a valuable asset for organizations offering mentoring, it hasn’t been as much help to those who are closest to this work: the mentors of America who meet with young people every day and support their healthy development and journey into adulthood.  \nWhile mentors in programs are often trained and prepared for their role, we also recognize that the vast majority of the mentoring youth receive in the United States comes from relationships that have formed more naturally – with extended family, teachers and coaches, faith leaders, and other community members. We realized at MENTOR that our key Elements resource was not offering much to this legion of caring adults, so we started this project, which early on was conceptualized as an Elements of Effective Practice for Mentors. For you.  \nWe spent a lot of time thinking about the skills that seemed central to good mentoring relationships across the board. Chances are we didn’t cover all of them here, but we hope it is a good start. And we were blessed to work with some of the brightest minds and most accomplished scholars in our field, each of whom has authored a chapter in the resource before you. We hope that their words and wisdom help you grow as a mentor, whether you are brand new to this movement or have worked alongside youth for decades.  \nThank you for your work as a mentor. You are not only supporting the young people you know, but you are also providing a positive path forward for your community and the nation. May this resource be an asset to you in your deeply meaningful and invaluable work.  \n-Mike and Carla  \nCONTRIBUTING AUTHORS  \n• Bernadette Sanchez, University of Illinois-Chicago  \n• Carla Herrera, independent consultant  \n• Dudney Sylla, MENTOR  \n• Ed Bowers, Clemson University  \n• Gabe Kuperminc, Georgia State University  \n• Julia Pryce, Loyola University (Chicago)  \n• Elizabeth Santiago, MENTOR Sr. Advisor  \n• Michael Garringer, MENTOR  \n• Michael Karcher, University of Texas–San Antonio  \n• Michelle Kaufman, Johns Hopkins University  \n• Minnie Chen, MENTOR  \n• Renee Spencer, Boston University  \n• Sam McQuillin, University of South Carolina  \n• Sarah Schwartz, Suffolk University  \n• Tom Keller, Portland State University  \n• Torie Weiston-Serdan, Center for Critical Mentoring  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nMichael and Carla would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their support of this resource:  \n• JPMorgan Chase, for their generous support of this project and for their unwavering commitment to mentorship programs around the world that help prepare young people for careers and for life.  \n• The many contributing authors and working group members who helped conceptualize this resource and bring it to life with their words and ideas.  \n• Krista Mason and Katherine Ozawa for their editing and project management support, respectively.  \n• Cecilia Molinari and Jenni Geiser for copyediting and desktop publishing, respectively.  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nIntroduction ..............................................................................................................................................4  \nWhat You Will Learn in thi","cbCaic0iPsRVvQc1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaic0iPsRVvQc1","pdf",8230238,135,"English","# Introduction\n## What You Will Learn in this Resource\n## Adopting a Foundational Mentoring “Mindset”\n## Mentoring Relationships 101\n## The Importance of Mentor Confidence\n## How to Use the Remaining Content of this Resource\n# Becoming a Better Mentor\n## Relationship-Building Practices\n## 1. 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