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Mentor Description
Position: Kinship Mentor/Volunteer
Mission of Kinship: to provide a preventive program for children by matching them with Kinship
volunteers who provide adult friendship and a positive role model.
Duties:
• To initiate weekly contacts with child
• To be consistent in meeting with and contacting the child with changes in planned meetings
• To maintain ongoing periodic contact/consultation with the Kinship staff; sharing concerns,
highlights and ideas.
Qualities and Skills Required:
• Care for the safety of children
• Love for children
• Time to spend with a child
• Dependability and enthusiasm
• Wide variety of interests
• Nonjudgmental attitude
• Transportation
Time Required:
Minimum six hours per month. Time will vary according to the contact/activity
Time When Mentoring Is Done:
After school hours or on weekends; negotiable with the child and his/her parent(s)/guardians
Length of Commitment: One Year minimum
Training Provided:
Initial orientation, periodic training sessions, ongoing support and consultation with staff
Supervisor:
Directly responsible to the Kinship Director
Benefits:
• Experience the fulfillment of watching a child grow and mature and seeing a child develop
assets and self-confidence
• Be a friend and have a friend; by giving of yourself you receive
• Experience the satisfaction of offering a child new opportunities
• Become part of an ongoing experience by reaching out and personally shaping another life
