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Youth mentoring is the process of matching
caring, concerned adults with young people who may be at
risk. The adult is usually unrelated and works as a
volunteer through a community, school or church based
social service program.
A more formal definition of youth mentoring is
provided by the website
InFed:
"The classic definition of mentoring is of an older
experienced guide who is acceptable to the young person
and who can help ease the transition to adulthood by a
mix of support and challenge. In this sense it is a
developmental relationship in which the young person is
inducted into the world of adulthood (Hamilton, 1991;
Freedman, 1995)."
