Find tips on how to have a better success rate with your coaching or mentoring. This site also allows you to join webinars on different topics within mentoring.
A list of mentoring resources provided by the Women's Center at University of Dayton. The website includes guides, handbooks, and various pages for both mentors and mentees.
The U.S. Department of Education offers strategies to outreach to community businesses and organizations to secure funding for mentoring programs.
The Corporation for National Service offers recommendations for recruiting male volunteers, who are underrepresented in volunteer organizations that work with youth.
This blog, sponsored by Youth Mentoring Connection (YMC) out of Los Angeles, informs you on programs and activities the YMC have executed successfully. If you are stumped on new activities to positively impact your mentees, head over to this blog and start brainstorming.
With hundreds of resources, you can search by a specific topic or focus area.
Find information on helping pick your perfect mentoring style and situation, mentoring functions, and a step-by-step walk through the different phases your mentor-mentee relationship will go through.
This toolkit enables staff of youth-serving organizations to create a safe and welcoming environment for GLBTQ youth by directly addressing homophobia among staff and youth. Includes background information on sexual orientation and homophobia, tips on making a safe space and dealing with harassment, and lesson plans to encourage inclusiveness.
This guide discusses considerations for educators working with LGBT students of color and provides practical tips and strategies for supporting students
Youth resource is a website by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people. Takes a holistic approach to sexual health and issues of concern to queer youth.
As the gay community comes out of the closet, parents by the hundreds of thousands are discovering that they are the parents of gay youth. This website focuses on difficult questions and answers for parents of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth.
NCLR is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education.
The National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC) is a social justice organization that advocates for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well-being.
The NOH8 Campaign is a charitable organization whose mission is to promote marriage, gender and human equality through education, advocacy, social media, and visual protest.
The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.
Created out of the sheer necessity to bring awareness to severe bullying amongst LGBTQ students, the It Gets Better Project has thousands of videos of people who were formerly bullied and have succeeded to become empowered and strong individuals despite their past situations.
This campaign is designed to empower individuals to talk openly about mental illness, recognize symptoms, utilize local resources and seek help for a variety of communities.
LAMBDA is a non-profit, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender agency dedicated to reducing homophobia, inequality, hate crimes, and discrimination by encouraging self-acceptance, cooperation, and non-violence.
The Matthew Shepard Foundation is an online community for LGBTQ youth experiencing bullying.
OutRight Action International is a leading international organization dedicated to human rights advocacy on behalf of people who experience discrimination or abuse on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.