Involve Parents and the Community
Involvement of parents and the community is paramount to the
success of mentoring interventions. Parents must accept and
support the presence of mentors in their children’s lives. And the
community plays a key role by providing volunteers and an
infrastructure to support the intervention overall.
Parents’ role
In almost all mentoring efforts, parents are involved at some
level. Parental involvement may mean signing a consent form for
the child’s participation, referring the child to a social-services
agency or organization, or taking part in activities along with the
mentor and child (Sipe and Roder 1999; Herrera 1999).