Mentor Resource Center

Urban Alliance has pulled together the following resources to support the critical work of our volunteer mentors who work with our students on a daily basis.  Click on the category below to see the resources that are listed!

• Urban Alliance Curriculum

• General Support & Resources

• Selected Reading

If you come across a resource you think should be posted on this website, email Tameka Logan, Program Director.

If you are a mentor, you can request the current curriculum your students are working on during Friday workshops for this month. Feel free to have your students work on these skills during downtime at work! Click on the email link below to send a request to Urban Alliance staff.  We will respond within 1 business day of your request.

Request Current UA Curriculum

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• For more than a decade, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership has been working to expand the world of quality mentoring. MENTOR believes that, with the help and guidance of an adult mentor, each child can discover how to unlock and achieve his or her potential. MENTOR is widely acknowledged as the nation's premier advocate and resource for mentoring initiatives nationwide.

To visit their website, click here.

• The Tutor/Mentor Connection site is an off-shoot of the Cabrini-Greens housing development in Chicago. The site is intended to provide an organized framework that empowers and encourages adult volunteers to give their time, effort, ideas and advocacy in seeking life-changing solutions for youth living in educationally and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

To visit their website, click here.

• Mentor Youth is a faith-based mentor recruitment organization.  They have some great information for mentors posted on their website:
  • Questions to Ask Yourself Before Becoming a Mentor
  • Mentoring Tip of the Week
  • Ask an Expert

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• Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith
• Handbook of Youth Mentoring
• Mentoring for Meaningful Results: Asset-Building Tips, Tools, and Activities for Youth and Adults
• Responding to Adolescents: Helping Relationship Skills for Youth Workers, Mentors and Other
• Stand by Me: The Risk and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth
• Youth Mentoring: Sharing Your Gifts with the Future

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