MENTORS INFORMATION

 Congratulations! 

You are confirmed to participate as a mentor for Kollab Youth's Workforce Development Program! As a mentor, you will have access to our mentor platform. In order to gain access, please follow the steps below. 

1. Fill out the MENTOR PROFILE at the bottom of this page or linked here. Upload your headshot, expertise, and more!
2. Then, create an account on the mentoring platform. Click here to create an account: KollabMentors.org. The Mentor Platform is a great new playbook to coach your mentees. We designed this new tool to help you understand the youth on who they are, track them, and engage with them. 
   
3. On January 23, you will be assigned your mentee via the platform. 
   
4. Upon receiving your mentee's contact information, be sure to send them an email to schedule your first meeting with them introducing yourself as their Kollab Mentor. We highly recommend including your bio and headshot. Keep reading below for email template examples. Please CC Sari Chaparro - schaparro@kollabyouth.org in the email to your mentee. Please ensure to send your mentees your time and virtual meeting link to the mentor meetings. 
   
5. Kollab Youth has created an outline for you to follow each week for your mentor meetings. Click here to view the mentor meeting outline. Mentors are welcome to send their mentees any information to enhance/augment the impact on the youth (ie; articles, books, introductions to additional professionals, etc.).

Please note: 

• If you do not hear back from your mentee after initial contact, let me know Sari Chaparro soon as possible.
• If you missed the Mentor Orientation, we highly recommend you view the recording. Click here to view the virtual orientation.

Mentorship for Kollab Participants:

Kollab participants (16 years and older) have the option to be paired with a professional mentor so the mentor can provide guidance, motivation, emotional support, and role modeling to their mentee throughout the duration of the program. A mentor may help with their mentee’s career exploration, goal setting, networking skills, resume building, job interviewing, and much more. Mentorship is 100% online - however, if you would like to meet your mentee in person the Kollab team can help coordinate this. 

The Kollab participants will have weekly meetings with their mentor, once a week for about 20 to 30 minutes each meeting. The mentorship timeline is from January 23rd and formally concludes March 16th

Mentor Meetings are to gain feedback from the youth regarding:

• Highlights of master class sessions (what were they, any takeaways)
• Would they like any follow-up information/deeper dive on a particular master class session?
• Provide support/guidance/next steps to let us know desired entry-level jobs, internships/externships
• It is encouraged for the youth to socialize and provide feedback on the sessions and program overall 
• Any questions they may have about your profession, etc.
• *During this time of the post-covid-19 pandemic, previous mentors have suggested doing "mental health check-ins" with their mentees to help relieve the stress they might be going through (we have resources and you may suggest any you know).

Mentorship Information Packet: Click here to view the information packet. 

• 1) Mentorship Outcomes - We asked the Kollab youth what they wanted from mentorship and compiled it into a document for you to view.
• 2) Mentor/Mentee Guidelines - The guidelines document is sent to the mentees to understand the basis of mentorship. 
• 3) Kollab Kwiz Mentor Links - Each Kollab participant completes the Kollab Personal Brand Kwiz to help them understand their personality style and help mentors accelerate their personal and professional growth and better understand them. Your mentee's "personality type results" are listed above. If they have not completed the quiz, the Kollab team will keep reminding them to complete it.
• 4) Kollab Resources - Kollab works with several organizations to provide youth resources for paid internships/apprenticeships, jobs, post-secondary education, mental health and more. 
  

Some useful tips from Mentors:

Here are some prompts/tools I used with my mentees that seemed to work well. 

-1st week challenge - find/connect with me on Linked In. 

Then the next week I gave them some ideas for their Linked In page and encouraged them to connect with every professional and peer participating in Kollab -Conversation about their future vision for their lives (follow up to their master class assignment GPS for Success). 

Follow up questions about what their life might look like in 5, 10, 20 years from now (where do they live? with whom? how do they spend their free time? what are they studying? where are they working? are they volunteering?) 

- I shared with them my professional journey which started in a very different place then where I am now. They are very interested in how one opportunity leads to the next. I encouraged them to stay open as their talents may find applications in fields they have not yet considered (often because they don't yet know about these career pathways)

 -The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need  Got them both this book (link above) - The Adventures of Johnny Bunko by Daniel Pink. Japanese anime style career guide about finding purpose through work. 

- Most of all encourage them to talk about what they got out of the sessions and what questions the Kollab content is making them ask themselves. The more they talk about it the deeper an impression this great experience will make. Connect them with people in their desired fields too so they can keep learning and networking post program. 

Example Emails from Mentors to Assigned Teens

Hello,  I hope you and your loved ones are well. I am your Kollab Program Mentor for the "Summer" Session. I can't wait to hear about how your week has been. Also, as an ice breaker when we meet, I would like you to share about something that inspired you this week and why.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m excited for our mentoring session together this Friday at 1:00 pm. If this time doesn’t work for you, let me know other times that may work better for you.

As an ice breaker I’d like us to share about someone who inspires us and something we’ve learned during this Kollab Program.

In addition to being a mentor, I’m also on the Advisory Board for the Boys & Girls Club Alliance of Los Angeles and Kollab. Professionally I’m a Vice President for Global Account Management with Robert Half, which is a global human capital, internal audit, financial, operations, technology, governance and risk consulting firm. Here’s a few links where you can learn more about me and my firm:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgemarquezrhsa/
https://www.roberthalf.com/about-robert-half
Protiviti (Wholly Owned Consulting Subsidiary of Robert Half) – https://www.protiviti.com/
Looking forward to learning more from each other, sharing opportunities and growing collectively.

The Journey is the Destination!
Best Regards, 

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Thank you! Please reach out with any questions or concerns.

Best Regards, 

Adriana "Sari" Chaparro

Program Manager 

Kollab Youth Workforce & Career Development Program
schaparro@kollabyouth.org

M: (818) 256-0827