The coronavirus pandemic is having a significant impact on young people’s mental health. Youth care researcher Levi van Dam suggest with international colleagues that mentors chosen by young people themselves from their own social environment could be used to help them. Van Dam and his colleagues set out the tried and tested benefits of this form of support in the leading scientific journal JAMA Psychiatry , University of Amsterdam notes.
Mentor Nebraska celebrates national mentoring month Everybody needs a mentor. I need a mentor. You need a mentor, Miah Sommer says Share Updated: 7:00 PM CST Jan 7, 2021 Everybody needs a mentor. I need a mentor. You need a mentor, Miah Sommer says Share Updated: 7:00 PM CST Jan 7, 2021
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Show Transcript AND HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED. REPORTER: THIS IS A NONPROFIT HELPING KIDS OUT OF THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM TO LAND ON THEIR FEET. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE DON T GO DOWN THE BAD PATH. THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SAID THE DEM GRAPH IS IS FORGOTTEN. WE THINK OF YOUNG KIDS AND GO THINK BACK TO MY PAST AND THE YEARS WHERE I THINK I WAS THE MOST AT RISK WAS LOOSE IN THE WORLD WHEN I I WAS TRANSITIONING TO BEING AN ADULT. REPORTER: THEY WORK TO GIVE EQUAL ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITIES. THERE ARE YOUNG PEOPLE WAITING TO BE MATCHED WITH A METROPOLITANOR AND WANT TO SEE THE WAIT INGLIS DRY UP AND MAKE SEEKING A MENTOR HAS A MENTOR. REPORTER
By Jeff Turner
Jan 7, 2021
MENTOR Nebraska, an organization that advocates for youth mentoring and the activities of its member agencies, is celebrating National Mentoring Month this January by launching its 8th annual mentor recruitment campaign. The local campaign is aligned with a national campaign led by MENTOR National, a nonprofit that serves as an advocate and resource for mentoring organizations. The campaign was announced today at a virtual multi-agency media conference presented by MENTOR Nebraska with support from Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert. Mayor Stothert shared that MENTOR Nebraska will receive a $10,000 grant from the City of Omaha to assist with mentor recruitment as part of the campaign.