Resources for Mentor Training

• Contemporary Issues in Mentoring by Jean Baldwin GrossmanJean Baldwin Grossman »
• Making Mentoring Work »
• Ethical Principles for Youth Mentoring Programs »

Movies about Mentors

• Aging Out (PBS documentary):  click here »
• About a Boy (mentoring relationship)
• Antwone Fisher (experience of a foster child, mentoring relationship)
• Dead Poets' Society (mentoring relationship)
• Finding Forrester (mentoring relationship)
• Good Will Hunting (mentoring relationship)
• Hearts in Atlantis (mentoring relationship)
• Mona Lisa Smile (mentoring relationship)
• The Hurricane (mentoring relationship, impact on others)
• The Karate Kid (mentoring relationship)
• Tuesdays with Morrie (mentoring relationship)

Behavioral, Social and Emotional Supports

• Helping kids make the transition from elementary to middle school »
• Truancy issues »
• Search Institute has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets—that help young children grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
  This particular list is intended for children in grades K-3 (age 5-9). Click Here »
  This particular list is intended for children in middle childhood (age 8-12). Click Here »
  This particular list is intended for adolescents (age 12-18). Click Here »
  

School Safety

• http://www.ncpc.org/topics/school-safety »

Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention

• Family Guide: Keeping Youth Drug Free »
• Parents: The Anti-Drug »

Social Work Department Family Resource Database

• www.cobbk12.org/familyresources »