Mentor Youth Now - A Guidebook for Transforming Young Lives - Paperback

by Jill Gurr (Author)

Mentor Youth Now covers all aspects of mentoring, from the basics to setting boundaries, teaching life skills and how to end a mentoring relationship. This guidebook is packed with detailed information on the process of becoming a mentor, field-tested projects through creative arts mentoring, solutions to challenges, inspirational stories about mentors from around the country, dozens of mentoring organizations in the U.S., more than 100 fun places to visit and things to do, sample templates plus The State of America's Youth, a 30-page cited report. With this book, anyone can become a powerful and confident mentor to help impact young lives. 20% of the proceeds will benefit Create Now (www.createnow.org), which provides creative arts mentoring to thousands of troubled kids.

Author Biography

Jill Gurr founded the nonprofit Create Now (www.createnow.org) fifteen years ago, which reaches troubled youth through creative arts mentoring. She has trained hundreds of mentors to help thousands of kids. Jill has been featured on "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360°" and in the Los Angeles Times. She is one of eight people in the U.S. selected to be in an exhibition at the Museum of Tolerance called "Everyday Heroes."