Teen Mentorship
Teen Mentoring
KTM assist to equip and support schools, churches and community organizations to effectively engage teens by creating a youth culture that is welcoming, caring, respectful and safe through the development of positive mentoring teams and relationships.
Studies show that young people who have at least one non-parent adult who is consistent in their lives benefit. This is evidenced by:
• Lower school dropout rates
• Less trouble with law enforcement
• Preparedness to build good relationships with their own families
• Lower anxiety, stress and negative self-concepts
KTM Will Help You:
Learn the skills and infrastructure necessary to support positive youth outcomes through mentoring.
Review best practices for designing, launching, operating, and sustaining a quality youth-mentoring program based on the six evidence-based standards.
Begin defining the opportunity for mentoring in your community.
Generate a list of questions to guide program development
Research Shows That Mentoring:
• Models positive social skills and facilitates interpersonal connections beyond family.
• Helps young people interpret and manage life challenges, including relationships with peers and parents.
• Facilitates meaningful conversations that boost cognitive skills and provides perspective.
• Strengthens self-regulation - one’s ability to manage emotions and impulses—to think before acting.
• Promotes identity development, a key task of adolescence, through modeling core qualities that contribute to human thriving, like empathy curiosity, resourcefulness, and resilience
• Opens doors to new ways of thinking, resources, and opportunities.
• Fosters self-efficacy, self-worth (a belief in oneself).
A Note From Khy
I am often asked if I am a marriage & family therapist, professional counselor or provide “therapy” in any way. While some of what I do could be considered similar to “therapeutic counseling”, it is not quite the same. Spiritual mentorship, on the other hand, is the exploration of a person’s “spiritual path” – a mentor will be used by God in listening with deep reflection and discernment. Christian mentoring is ultimately the amazing work of the Holy Spirit through a personalized, authentic, life-to-life exchange between two people. The results, therefore, focus not on psychological healing, but rather on spiritual wholeness in Christ.