Building a cross-age peer mentoring program: A school counselor's guide

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-41)In cross-age peer mentoring programs, an older youth is matched with a younger student to provide guidance and support in areas of academic, social, and emotional development. Review of literature suggests that mentees as well as mentors can strongly benefit from the mentoring relationship given the careful design of the development, implementation, supervision, and evaluation of the program. This graduate project assists school counselors toward the creation of a cross-age-peer mentoring program that designed to deliver a battery of academic, social and personal support from student to student; furthermore helping a larger group of students improve in an academic and social setting. This project provides a guide to develop a school-based mentoring program based on the Recommended Best Mentoring Practices and a series of mentoring workshops that will teach mentors the skill necessary to engage in the mentoring relationship