The National Guard Challenge Bureau requires all mentors to attend a MANDATORY mentor training workshop before being officially matched to their cadet. The training will address the mentor's role and requirements both during the Residential and Post-Residential phase of the program. All prospective mentors will receive notification by mail concerning the mandatory training.
Thunderbird Youth Academy is always seeking caring individuals who want to support our youth. The mentor relationship with a TYA Cadet can be the most important contact he/she may have while attending the Academy and continue for 12-months after graduation.
To become a Mentor you must meet the following criteria:
If you have been browsing our website, you can see by now that TYA is geared to help our youth get back on track. Our success rate is impressive, but the honor doesn't belong to us alone. Our Mentors play a very important part in this process. Mentors become an extension of TYA when the cadets have left the Residential Phase of the program.
To become a Mentor you must meet the following criteria:
The overall expectations are:
We have all been there...something happens good or bad and there is that one friend we need to talk to. A problem arises, we get stressed and don't know what do do, but we know someone who can give us advice and talk us through our problems. It may not always be what we want to hear...but sometimes it is exactly what we need to hear. In a nut shell, that is what mentoring is all about.
