The Thirty2give app is an excellent virtual tool to reach out and create a virtual mentoring/coaching relationship. These relationships can be in the form of 1:1 sessions or mutual support groups called Mentoring Trees. The veil of anonymity encourages an efficient transfer of knowledge and support and can be lifted within a safe environment such as a sponsoring health system or corporate entity.
Contact UsMentoring relationships are crucial for individuals who are underrepresented in academia, including individuals who identify as minorities. Mentoring can help these groups succeed, stay motivated, and feel supported in their academic journey. It also helps prevent them from dropping out of school and increase their chances of achieving academic success.
Having a diverse group of mentors is especially helpful because it supports long-term career goals and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia. Mentors provide valuable professional support, guidance, information, and advice, and serve as role models for success in their field.
Both hierarchical and peer mentoring has been shown to positively impact traditional indicators of college student success such as average GPA, credits earned, and retention (Campbell & Campbell, 2007, pp. 137, 143; Colvin & Ashman, 2010, p. 128). In addition, researchers have established that both approaches facilitate new students’ adjustment to campus (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005; Ruthkosky & Castano, 2007) and increase students’ satisfaction with their universities (Tenenbaum, Crosby, & Gliner, 2001, p. 326; Ferrari, 2004, p. 303).
There is growing literature in higher education that discusses the potential benefits of integrating alumni more closely within the university community. These benefits include access to resources through philanthropy or industry collaboration, marketing and promotion of the university, and alumni’s potential to help students to support graduate employability (Ebert, Axelsson, & Harbor, 2015; Heckman & Guskey, 1998; Pearson, 1999).
Providing offenders with holistic support and engagement which will help reduce recidivism and offer a transition to a stronger, better and healthier individual.
Facilitates the partnering of youth offenders with friendly counselors and promotes engagement in between intervention meetings.
Offenders are able to avoid events and people that trigger susceptibility to negative triggers.
The model that worked for 50 years is reshaped by allowing youth offenders to connect with judicial, law, church, social services staff and others through an app.
Counseling is an activity that is normally done by either a trained professional or a person with qualified life experience in a particular area. The outcome of the counseling process is usually an outward demonstration of beneficial change to the person being counseled.
Historically, the counseling sessions occurred face to face. The social distancing resulted by the pandemic has changed the counseling model. People are socially distant – they live and work remote and apart from others
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