Do you have a hobby, interest or skill you would like to share with someone who is eager to learn from your experience?  Skill based mentoring is the perfect opportunity to share your experience, interest, or knowledge of a skill or hobby! 

Skill based mentoring can be anything from teaching someone to fish, crochet, use a computer, sharing 'life skills' with young parents, or sharing your knowledge/expertise of a particular trade with someone who is investigating a career in your field.

Skill based mentoring prepares young adults for higher education, life-skills, or the workplace equipping them to be responsible citizens as well as giving individuals opportunities to learn new hobbies and share interests. 

Benefits:

• Provides support in areas of interest and/or need
• Provides a foundation and/or support in basic life skills, such as learning about skill- based trades, parenting skills, and overcoming barriers, for personal development
• Enriches job performance, interest and commitment
• Increases self confidence
• Offers opportunities to participate with a ‘teamwork’ approach
• Enhance thinking skills, such as creativity, decision-making, problem-solving and reasoning
• Augments opportunities for young adults to understand the business world and take part in it
• Guides young adults in skill based trade/career making decisions
• Enrich young people's knowledge and understanding of their culture and the cultures of those around them
• Helps develop marketable skills through a mentoring relationship
• Offers orientation, mentoring, and exposure of young adults to the business arena
• Gives mentees a sense of belonging in the community
• Provides support and friendship through a non-family member adult
• Promotes both the general well-being of all young people and positive behavior, while concurrently preventing negative behaviors
• Establishes a sense of belonging and connectedness among communities youth and adults (closing the generational gap)
• Strengthens communities served
• Reduces rural isolation