College Positive Mentoring Toolkit

Session 2: 2:30-4:30 (2 hour workshop)

College positive mentoring encourages and creates a pathway for K-12 youth to consider, plan for, and attend post-secondary institutions. Carefully structured and supported mentoring provides young people with the developmental resources needed for success. Combined with age-appropriate, appealing college access activities and consistent encouragement, mentoring relationships help youth succeed both personally and academically, and set them on the pathway for higher education!  Mentor Michigan  and  Michigan Campus Compact developed the College Positive Mentoring Toolkit, designed to provide mentors with information, conversation starters, match activity ideas, and ready-to-use activities, to help their mentees take important steps toward higher education. Gain access to ready-to-use resources for your program staff and mentors to use to help empower the young people in your program to consider education beyond high school as a realistic option, as well as to equip them with the tools to plan for and attend post-secondary education.

Intended Workshop Audience: All Audiences

Presented by Amber Troupe, Director at Mentor Michigan 

Amber Troupe is the director of Michigan's statewide mentoring partnership, Mentor Michigan, which is housed at the Michigan Community Service Commission.  She has been the lead staff person on this initiative for over five years.  Prior to coming to the Commission, Amber served as an AmeriCorps member, coordinated a Girls on the Run program in West Michigan and supported a small community based mentoring program.