Mentor Program

For our students: Click here for an application to apply for potential mentor partnership

For our potential mentors: Click here for an application to apply to be a mentor to one of our students.

STUDENTS:

Are you sometimes confused or overwhelmed about college or your career trajectory?

Are you interested in learning new skills, broadening your horizons and career options?

Are you interested in having a caring and experienced professional available to discuss career interests, life issues, and to provide support and open doors to new resources and opportunities?

If you feel this way, you may consider the benefits of a Mentoring Relationship: A one-to-one relationship that encourages individuals, focuses on the needs of the individual, and helps them reach their full potential.

What is a MENTOR?
A mentor is a trusted guide and friend, a positive role model who provides access to people, places, and things outside the mentee’s normal environment.

The Many Roles Of A Mentor

• Guide
• Friend
• Cheerleader
• Listener
• Role Model
• Sounding Board
• Coach
• Link to other cultures, attitudes and behaviors
• Brother/Sister
• Resource to help navigate academic and career goals, and combine them with personal and family lives

  Though a mentor may be a role model, a true mentor does not ask another person to “be like me”. A mentor says, “I will help you be whoever you wish to be.”
  (Reprinted with permission: United Way of America and the Enterprise Foundation. Source: Partnerships for Success: A Mentoring Program Manual)

Mentor’s/Student’s Activities
These are typical activities, among others, for the mentor/student to do during their meetings:

• Tour the mentor’s company
• Student participates in special company activities
• Get together for lunch
• Discuss potential careers in the student’s field of interest
• Discuss professional, on the job behavior
• Helping the student prepare for a job interview
• Discuss strategies for success in school, the workplace, and the community
• Assist the student to develop his or her own vision of the future

Funded by a Title V Grant provided by the DOE

Lawrence Campus
CPAC Room 135
978-738-7486

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Haverhill Campus
Behrakis One Stop Student Services Center, 2nd Flr.
978-556-3722