45 min to 1 hour initial team mentor training

1. Faith-Based Team Mentoring Training Based on Putting Families First Foundation of N. Greenville College, S. Carolina and with information taken from www.mentoring.org mentoring support site

12. The Mentoring Lifecycle - It’s Good! Project HOPE recommends spending time on the web site www.mentoring.org to familiarize and refresh yourself on mentoring techniques, to look for answers to apparent problems, and to look for new techniques and recommendations for being a successful mentor for your participant. Please remember this is not a faith-based site; so statements that you should avoid “preaching”, if you are looking into improving communications, does not mean that you should not talk about faith, morality, responsibility, etc. Project HOPE staff are always available for any questions mentors have along the way. We want this to become a congregation’s ministry so mentoring will be easily passed on to succeeding members and generations.

14. 3. Sustaining the relationship - requires pushing and urging the participant to keep focused on God and their plan (since some people fear success) by continuing to focus on progress toward the goals in each area of the plan and calling the participant to higher and higher levels of dignity and responsibility. This call corresponds beautifully with our call to continue to grow our relationship with God. Some people tend to “slack off” when they see any success where there has been none at all!

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17. Dealing with OBSTACLES! One major part of mentoring is to recognize obstacles and know what you can handle so you are always ready to refer participants to others for the professional help they may need in overcoming their obstacle. We would not think of doing heart surgery, if we were not a trained heart surgeon; and, similarly, Project HOPE does not expect mentors to be able to handle everything tossed your way! Check with your congregation to see if you may have a professional able and willing to provide the professional service needed or call Project HOPE and we can help find professionals. As the mentoring progresses you need to move your participant toward finding more and more of their own solutions to overcoming obstacles they face. If the relationship stalls or seems to be going nowhere, please call Project HOPE, as we will get involved and re-assess the participants commitment. Project HOPE will take care of ending any mentoring relationships that need to end. Please remember that about 10% of mentored participants we have experienced do disconnect for various reasons.

18. RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS . . . FOCUS ON GOD!!!!!!!! MOVE TOWARD DIGNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY!!!!!!