Volunteer Mentor Position 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:
One to five hours per week. 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