by Chris Downs | Jan 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Share on TumblrJanuary is Mentoring month in the United States. This month The Downs Group LLC has offered a variety of resources for you related to bullying prevention with youth, and especially for youth living in foster care. We hope these have been useful...
by Chris Downs | Jan 24, 2018 | Mentoring
Share on TumblrMost of us like to think that mentoring programs are successful. We might base this on our own personal experience of being mentored or mentoring someone else, but are mentoring programs really successful? Do they work? Given the time and expense...
by TheDownsGroupLLC | Jan 17, 2018 | Mentoring
Share on TumblrCoaching as a professional development strategy has gained tremendous momentum in the field of child welfare and human services. Over time, that conversation has been appropriately extended into the arena of coaching foster youth, in particular...
by TheDownsGroupLLC | Jan 15, 2018 | Keynote, Mentoring
Share on TumblrOne of the things we offer at The Downs Group LLC is subject-specific storytelling, sometimes called “strategic sharing.” For mentoring, this means we will bring to you and your audience a highly skilled professional to talk about mentoring...
by TheDownsGroupLLC | Jan 11, 2018 | Mentoring
Share on TumblrThere are local and national mentoring programs that include emphasis on mentoring youth in substitute care, such as foster care. Here are some of the more prominent national mentoring groups. FosterMore https://fostermore.org/take-action/ Foster...
by Chris Downs | Jan 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Share on TumblrI have mentored more people than I can count over a lengthy career teaching students, colleagues and young people. I’ve learned a lot of lessons from being a mentor. I’ve even had one young person I mentored for about 5 years end up mentoring me...
by TheDownsGroupLLC | Jan 5, 2018 | Featured Course, Mentoring
Share on TumblrYouth in substitute care seem to benefit significantly from clearly identified and dedicated adult mentors. This is a full-day, in-person training on strategies and techniques to increase the numbers and quality of mentors for youth. It also...
by Chris Downs | Jan 3, 2018 | Mentoring
Share on TumblrMost of us have had someone in our lives who offered guidance, stimulated our thinking, gently scolded, and/or helpfully listened to us along the way. These kinds of folks are often referred to as “mentors.” I was blessed with several mentors...
by Chris Downs | Jan 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Share on TumblrJanuary is Mentoring month in the United States. President George W. Bush initiated January as National Mentoring Month back in 2002. Since then mentoring programs as well as prominent national leaders have participated in showcasing mentoring...
by TheDownsGroupLLC | Dec 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
Share on TumblrThis month we’ve offered tools and resources to help child welfare professionals and agencies take stock of how things are going. We hope they have been helpful as we close out 2017. If you missed some of these resources, please click on the list...
