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Mentor Factsheets

Our factsheets have been developed to assist mentors build and maintain their relationship with their mentees. The factsheets can be dowloaded for free from the website or they can be purchased from our webshop.The webshop also sells sets of factsheets. Click here to visit the webshop.

   
Factsheet1

Factsheet 1 - Adolescent Issues

In this factsheet mentors are provided with information on the current situation of sexual health, suicide and drug and alcohol issues for young people. It also provides you with a series of websites where you can find additional information on each of these topics.

 

   
Factsheet2

Factsheet 2 - Building Relationships

This factsheet contains information and ideas to encourage a meaningful and fulfilling relationship.

   
Factsheet3

Factsheet 3 - Getting to Know Your Mentee

This factsheet will provide information, games, activities and questions you can ask your mentee to break the ice and get the conversation going.

   
Factsheet4

Factsheet 4 - Trouble-shooting the Relationship

This factsheet discusses some common challenges that occur in a mentoring relationship and suggests some possible ways of resolving them.

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Factsheet5

Factsheet 5 - Careers and Jobseeking

This factsheet will provide mentors with ways they can broach the career topic in general conversation with their mentee as well as providng information about resources they can use to help their mentee in their career and job seeking efforts.

   
Factsheet6

Factsheet 6 – Dealing with Bullying

This factsheet will define bullying in its various forms, including cyber-bullying. It will also assist mentors in supporting students and provides information about further resources.

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Factsheet7

Factsheet 7 - Anger Management

This factsheet aims to assist mentors in dealing with an angry mentee. It will provide strategies for dealing with conflict situations and further resources to assist your mentee in developing positive behaviours.

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Factsheet8

Factsheet 8 - Leaving School - Where to Now?

This factsheet contains information on how to manage the leaving school process and contains useful resources and websites, which can be provided to the student.

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Factsheet 9

Factsheet 9 - Ice Breakers

This factsheet contains information on games a mentor can play with their new mentee to make the mentee feel more comfortable with the mentor.

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Factsheet10

Factsheet 10- Mentoring Boys

This factsheet will outline some challenges with mentoring boys and suggest strategies to assist you in mentoring boys.

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Factsheet11

Factsheet 11 - Helping Your Mentee Deal with Stress

This factsheet will assist you in helping your mentee manage stress during various stages of their lives, including family breakdown and during exam periods.

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Factsheet12

Factsheet 12 - Dealing with Grief or Loss

This factsheet aims to assist mentors in helping your mentee deal with grief or loss in their life.

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Factsheet 13

Factsheet 13 - Mentoring Youth from a CALD Background

This factsheet will help you mentor young people from a background which is culturally or linguistically different from your background.

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Factsheet 14

Factsheet 14 - Mentoring Girls

This factsheet will outline some challenges with mentoring girls and includes strategies to build stronger mentoring relationships with girls.

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Factsheet15

Factsheet 15 - Maintaining Relationships During Breaks

This factsheet provides ideas on how to keep the mentoring relationship going during school holidays, exam leave and other long breaks.

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Factsheet 16

Factsheet 16 - Mentoring Indigenous Youth

This factsheet provides details about Aboriginal culture which will better prepare you for mentoring indigenous youth.

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Factsheet 17

Factsheet 17 - Preparing Youth for Closing of a Match

This factsheet provides hints and tips to help you prepare you and your mentee in closing the match.

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Beyond Blue   
Beyondblue also has a great variety of factsheets to deal with issues including depression and anxiety, drug use, bullying, eating disorders, suicide and self-harm and family breakups.
 

 

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