Teen Mentor Research Paper

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Why Do We Need Teen Mentors? Teen Mentors can play some of the most important roles in our society today—without a doubt. The teens who need mentors are those who do not already have positive adult role models in their lives to listen to them, to guide them or to give them advice, or perhaps they only have one positive adult role model in their lives who is working her or his ‘fingers to the bone’ to provide basic necessities for that teenager and any additional siblings; therefore, any additional positive adult role model can prove to be miraculous. Most of our U.S. population perceives that these Teen Mentors are needed only in school districts that are “poor” or “underprivileged”; however, that concept is NOT true. One can look at ANY school …show more content…

Adults who want to be teen mentors find out a child’s district, and when it is one that is considered privileged, many prospective Teen Mentors immediately brush those kids off as not needing them or anything else at all. This denial of support and care for these kids is not only tragic, but it is also compounded by the fact that every day they are surrounded by a majority of their peers who get everything they want and beyond. They watch their classmates get spoiled beyond belief, yet the adults who want to be Teen Mentors do not volunteer to mentor teens from that particular district, because they believe the stereotype that everyone from that district is wealthy and has all of the resources most at-risk teens do not …show more content…

Since that time, Rachel’s father began the program in the name of his daughter to spread warnings about teen bullying and to promote teenagers and adults to make small differences in each others’ lives that can grow into bigger differences that will eventually make a greater impact. I attended one of the “Rachel’s Challenge” programs in the winter of 2007 along with a group of kids who were trying to make a difference in our school to stop bullying and promote acceptance among one another. My kids came back inspired to make a difference in every person’s life in our

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