Resources
Mentor Training Manual
Click here to read Mentoring Training Manual
Audio
The Value of Mentoring Today’s Youth- Focus on the Family
Activities
Pathfinders Camp in Kingsport has offered us free use of their fishing pond. If interested, call Clay O’Connell at Pathfinders at 817-1543 a day or two in advance, and he will take care of you. You do not need fishing licenses, it’s catch and release, and they would love to have you out there!
Here is a map to Pathfinders Camp, 4951 Sullivan Gardens Parkway, Kingsport: click here
Websites
Mentoring Info
National Resource Center for Children of the Incarcerated
www.fcnetwork.org
National Mentoring Partnership
www.mentoring.org
Public/Private Ventures
www.ppv.org
Sound advice in youth issues
www.empoweringparents.org
Mentoring Tips
http://friendsforyouth.org
Activity Info
If the world were 100 people
http://100people.org
The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site
www.geocaching.com
All about bubbles and activities
www.bubbles.org
Fun things to do with a kid
www.familypastime.com
Books
The Heart’s Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart’s Energy by Paul Pearsall
A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne
It’s Better to Build Boys than Mend Men by S. Truett Cathy
Man Making: Men Helping Boys on their Journey to Manhood by Earl Hipp
White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay by Star Parker
Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year by Esme Raji Codell
Fields of the Fatherless by C. Thomas Davis
From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens by 50 Cent and Kris Ex
The Excellent 11: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children by Ron Clark