Trekkers’ Brandon Caron, Kaleb Robinson, Elliott Spear discuss the ‘mentor chain’
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Team Beacon on their 9th grade Urban Expedition. On the far right is Elliott Spear.
Is mentorship important? Brandon Caron, Kaleb Robinson and Elliott Spear all say yes. Of course, they say yes. They are part of a developing “mentor chain” with Trekkers, an experiential education and mentoring program for young people based in midcoast Maine. Mentor chains are a kind of “unicorn” in the youth development world, in which an alumnus or alumna becomes a mentor to a student who then graduates and becomes a mentor to a student, passing along the connection for each graduating class. Eventually, it forms a chain of committed volunteers who return to give back what they feel they received and serve as an example of the transformative power of mentorship.