APU Mentoring Training Guide

1. APU Mentoring Training Guide

2. Program overview • The APU baseball mentorship program is designed to develop well rounded men and aide in the transition from high school to college • In order to do this we have matched up upper class players with freshman players

3. Time Overview • 10 week program (Fall) • Meetings bi-weekly • 30 minutes • 10 week program (Spring) • Meetings monthly • 30 minutes

4. Vision • The vision of the APU baseball mentorship program is to ease develop well-rounded young men who are able to excel on and off the field through Christ, scholarship, service, and life skill development.

5. Mission • The mission of APU baseball mentorship program is to provide a structured and guided format that allows mentors and mentees to meet on a regular basis to discuss current spiritual, social, academic, and transitional challenges.

6. Why Mentoring? • Incoming freshman face a variety of challenges • These challenges include: • Social choices • Spiritual journey • Life skills • Academic success

7. Your Role • Your role as mentors is to provide guidance: • socially (community) • spiritually (Christ) • academically (scholarship) • life skills (service)

8. Something to Offer • As a mentor you have something to offer • You have college and life experience the freshman do not have • You may be able to help underclassmen learn and grow from challenges you have faced

9. How do I act as a mentor? • Be: • open • authentic • honest

10. How do I help them grow in these areas? • Each meeting you will be assigned specific questions and areas to work through • These questions will be geared at developing freshman: • socially • spiritually • academically • life skills

11. Your responsibility as mentors • Take meetings seriously • Show up on time • Practice what you preach

12. Conclusion • You have a responsibility as an upperclassman to take the younger players under your wing • If we are going to be successful on the field, we must be successful off the field