E-mentoring

[Kathie Carroll Day]

There is a great resource that we utilize for e-mentoring called
icouldbe.org.  They have on-line mentors in virtually every career area all
across the country and some even in other countries.  It is a non-profit,
they charge only $40 per student to enroll them in the program, and they
provide free training, a manual, and both a disk and CD with all of the
information re: utilizing the system, how to help youth get the best out of
it, etc.  Contacts can be made whenever and as often as a youth wants, on
their own, as well as part of a structured program.  We are going to use it
as part of a career exploration course, but then the youth can contact the
mentors whenever they want.  What impressed me about it was the
safety/security system they have set up.  The mentoring can only be done
through their monitored system.  There is no way inappropriate
conversations or contacts can occur.  They also
issue a report showing how many contacts had been made per individual, etc.
For more information, check out their website at www.icouldbe.org

Kathie Carroll Day, Director
MetroWest School to Career Partnership
Framingham Community Partners for Youth
750 Winter St.
Framingham, MA  01702
(508) 416-2212
kcday at jpkeefehs.org

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