Adopting a Mentoring Mindset

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Youth Development

No matter the type of youth work you do, whether you’re a formal mentor or not, adopting a mentoring mindset brings better outcomes. You’ll be better equipped to go beyond building resilience to beginning to address structural challenges faced by the young people you serve.
Adopting the characteristics of effective mentors will help you create and support quality relationships with youth.
You’ll also learn how Critical Mentoring is advancing the mentoring field forward to raise youth voice and address structural challenges that impact young people.

Your Learning Objectives

Be able to identify different types of mentoring relationships and their purpose
Understand the 5 elements of Developmental Relationships and explore how they can enhance mentoring relationships
Learn how “Critical Mentoring” and “Youth Voice” are informing the field of mentoring
Gain actionable strategies to become a more effective mentor in any type of youth work

Your Course Details

Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Hillary Lamberty is the Manager of Enrollment and Matching for the Community-Based Program at Big Brothers Big Sisters Twin Cities. As a licensed social worker, she fosters a strengths-based empowerment approach and authentic relationships in all of her work with families, youth, and volunteers. Having worked in Minnesota public schools and internationally in higher education, she brings a global and inclusive perspective to the innovation and success of her team. Hillary holds a Master of Community Practice Social Work degree from the University of Minnesota, with a focus on community organization and advocacy; and a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Winona State University. She loves a good joke and lives with her husband and their three beautiful goldfish in Apple Valley, MN.