Mentor - a caring adult friend, who devotes his time to the child or teenager. The purpose of mentoring - to help teens find their place in society, develop their potential and use their strengths.

Most of us have had Significant people: coach, boss, teacher. These people have influenced our choice of values, principles of life. They were an example for us, advocates, advisors, and just friends. Mentor integrates all these functions.

It is important to understand that he performs many roles in the relationship with the child.

For a successful interaction Mentor should:
• Have an earnest desire to communicate with the child or teenager
• Respect the child or teenager
• Actively listen
• Demonstrate empathy
• Search for solutions and opportunities
• Be flexible and open

During your communication with the child or teenager, you will certainly see your positive influence on a child's life. You'll also learn a lot about yourself, too.
Mentoring brings special benefits.

As a Mentor you will:
• Provide a positive impact on someone's life
• Find out many new things about yourself
• Give and at the same time invest in the future
• Simply have a good time

Mentoring helps, because it guarantees a child that there are people who are concerned about it. Child is not left alone with his daily problems. Mentors help to raise self-esteem of their children and teenagers.

Young person, who meets regularly with his Mentor for 46% less chance to initiate the use of drugs than their peers, and 27% less inclined to use alcohol. (Sociological research held by the organization “Older brothers and sisters”). Mentor is part of the team of caring adults surrounding the child.

The main purpose is: the Mentor is to help children to identify individual life goals and find ways to achieve them.

If you think that you may be a good Mentor - it's wonderful. We have information about opportunities. Now you need to take into account that it may take a little time before you can meet with your child. Since the program is caring about maintaining security as Mentors and children.

Mentoring program.
The program "Building of independent life skills for orphans and children deprived of parental care, who are at the institutions of various forms of ownership"
Reasoning of the program:
Orphans and children deprived of parental care, who are brought up outside the family environment, in individual life must get involved into social relations, which require them to develop social and personal skills - namely, responsibility, ability to make choices and to cooperate with others .
Therefore, on the basis of institutions for orphans and children deprived of parental care should be created evolutive environment, which will help to expand and deepen their socialization into three main areas: activity, communication, self-knowledge. One of the trends of evolutive environment is mentoring.
Thus, this program will help children better understand themselves and people around them, gain confidence and ability to build healthy interpersonal relationships, to get acquainted with the principles of independent and self-supporting life. It is a tool that will gather together and unite around each child a group of caring people willing to help, encourage and support.
Goal of the program: preparation of orphans and children deprived of parental care who stay at public institutions for an independent life (adjusted for their age and functional limitations).
Assignments of the program:

- The formation of different abilities and independent life skills of orphans and children deprived of parental care;

- Search and training of mentors for each child.

The "Orientation"
The purpose of creating the program of orientation activities within the framework of mentoring program is to help orphans and children deprived of parental care to identify their potential, to increase knowledge about different occupations, to determine the profession and to enter the school.

The "Tutoring"
The purpose of tutoring in the framework of mentoring program is to brin up a happy, smart, friendly, proactive, responsible and healthy students. And also to assist the child in acquiring new knowledge and apply it in his life, to help him do the homework, to expand his horizons and to encourage him to make the efforts to study.

The "Socialization"
The purpose of socialization in the framework of mentoring program is to help orphans and children deprived of parental care learn the social values, norms, behaviors, accepted in society and to build the personality with the purpose of further adaptation of the child in society. And also it is the process of acculturation, education and training, through which the child could participate in social life.