Date of Award
5-2016
Degree Type
Research Paper
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Community Development and Planning (CDP)
Department
International Development, Community and Environment
Chief Instructor
Laurie Ross, Ph.D.
Keywords
mentoring, youth, immigrant youth, mentor competency, African, refugee youth
Abstract
This practitioner paper focuses on the African Community Education (ACE) Mentoring for Empowerment and Exchange (MEE) in Worcester, Massachusetts and its ability to develop mentor competency in their volunteer mentors. In order to be effective mentors to their mentees, mentors need to be given tools to develop their own personal sense of competency via programmatic support like check-ins and trainings. Using interviews with mentors, literature in the field of mentoring, and program data, recommendations are made for ways ACE MEE program staff can enhance their programmatic structures to promote mentor competency and therefore develop high quality matches that support the positive development of all youth involved in the ACE MEE program.
Recommended Citation
Renner, Kelsey, "Supporting Mentor Competency At African Community Education" (2016). International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE). 89.
https://commons.clarku.edu/idce_masters_papers/89
Worcester
Yes