Great Mentoring

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION This section introduces the framework for mentorship as it relates to sexual decisions. Adult mentors can offer positive sexual decision-making support in both short- and long-term relationships. This introduction begins with a look at what those relationships might include, then includes principles for sexuality education and a discussion about what they might mean in a mentoring relationship, and finally includes tips for building a mentorship.

1. What is Sexual Decision-Making Mentorship?

2. Principles for Sex Education Re-Envisioned for Sexual Decision Mentorship

3. Tips for Being a Positive Sexual Decision-Making Mentor

SECTION 2: BEING A GREAT MENTOR This section provides a guideline for sexual decision-making mentorship. There are five steps to this process:

1. Step 1: Figure Yourself Out

2. Step 2: Make a Connection

3. Step 3: Assess the Teen's Developmental Stage 

4. Step 4: Interact in the Adult Ego State

5. Step 5: Support a Healthy Decision 

SECTION 3: UNDERSTANDING TEEN DECISIONS This section is focused on the stages that teenagers, and people of all ages, go through as they make changes in their lives towards better habits and choices.

1. Five Basic Principles of Behavior Change

2. Five Stages of Change

3. What's Sex Got to Do with It?

4. 50 Reasons Why Teens Don't Always Decide to Use Contraception or Safer Sex

SECTION 4: RESOURCES This section includes handouts of information to give to young people to support their sexual decision-making processes.

1. Finding Help: A Resource List

2. Five Things to Know about Trauma 

3. Hey, Mom? Hey, Dad? (Hey...Gram?) Can We Talk about Abstinence?

4. Contraceptive Options Chart

5. Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Summary

6. Using Condoms