TYPES OF MENTORING
Addiction Mentoring ❯❯
Our mentors support individuals struggling with an addiction by creating an individualized self-care plan to establish structure, accountability and consistency. Such action plans are broken down into daily steps that provide a roadmap leading them into a life of recovery.
Mental Health Mentoring ❯❯
Mental health struggles can feel overwhelming, lonely and often times discouraging. The reality is that the majority of the population faces mental health challenges at some point during their lives. You do not have to face these feelings alone. Mentorship acts as a critical support to an individual coping with symptoms of a mental health diagnosis. Mentors work alongside an individual’s treatment team (therapist, psychiatrist, nutritionist Etc.) to reach their therapeutic goals, utilize healthy coping strategies and gain symptom relief. A mentor may help a client face and successfully move through anxiety provoking engagements, debilitating phobias, or taking contrary action to mood dependent behaviors. To do so, mentors will collaborate with the individual and their support system to execute an individualized self-care plan. Once this action plan is established, the mentor will support the client in follow through, structure and consistency. When necessary, mentors may also support their clients with medication management.
Transitioning Levels of Care ❯❯
Transitioning from a higher level of care to a lower level of care or home environment can be challenging to navigate alone. A mentor will facilitate this transition to be smooth, successful and empowering. Mentors support individuals in utilizing a calendar to develop a consistent and structured daily action plan that allows them to maintain productivity, follow through with commitments, and execute an individualized self-care plan developed upon engagement in mentorship. A mentor will provide assistance in reintegrating back into their home environment and community by supporting them to confront emotional triggers, day to day challenges, family dynamics, conflict and stressors by utilizing healthy coping strategies and developing a strong support system. As the individual reestablishes a safe environment and healthy routine, they will gain a sense of empowerment, esteem and confidence to maintain this on their own.
Failure to Launch Mentoring ❯❯
The idea of being an adult can be daunting and overwhelming. Where do you start? What does that look like? Mentors support individuals in this life transition by modeling, teaching and facilitating the execution of learning responsibility and being able to confidently be in the world in a productive and empowering way. Individuals will be given a calendar to develop a consistent and structured daily action plan. Once a plan is in place, mentors will support the launcher with developing a resume, securing a job, budgeting, developing a self-care plan and discovering their passions to be able to take steps to reach their future goals. As the individual begins to reach their goals, find their purpose and maintain consistency, they will develop self-esteem and empowerment that is imperative in them successfully launching into adulthood.
Academics, peer pressures, friendships and hormones can be extremely challenging to navigate for teens and their parents. Although there are informative and informational guides to moving through the teenage years successfully, reading versus applying these suggestions are entirely different actions. Mentors act as in-person guides to support teens and their families in finding a healthy balance between school, friends, self-care and family time.