Responsible mentoring is based within the community, schools or on-site of your local program and can take many forms, such as :

• traditional mentoring (one adult to one young person)
• group mentoring (one adult to up to four young people)
• team mentoring (several adults working with small groups of young people, in which the adult to youth ratio is not greater than 1:4)
• peer mentoring (caring youth mentoring other youth)
• e-mentoring (mentoring via e-mail and the Internet)

Once you have considered the type of mentoring opportunity that seems best suited to you, it is time to find the mentoring program you are interested in joining.

The following suggestions are just a few of the ways that you can begin to access mentoring opportunities in your area:

• Use our Vermont Directory of Programs to find a program in your county

Should you find yourself in a position in which you are functioning as a mentor outside an existing program, it would benefit you to visit our Web site to look into some basic mentor training where you will find suggestions for the kinds of “contracts” that you’ll want to set up between you and your mentee. There are a variety of mentor training materials available to you online.