Mentoring and Youth Mental Health

Strong mentoring relationships can serve as critical protective factors and catalysts for young people’s social-emotional development and mental well-being -- especially during adolescence when youth experience a variety of physical, cognitive, social and emotional changes.  

Protective factors like environments and supports help to counteract risk factors and the more protective factors a young person has, the more likely they will learn to be resilient in the face of adversity.

Click here to read more from Mental Health First Aid on how protective factors can promote resiliency in young people.  You can also click here to view the recaps from our Mentoring and Youth Mental Health Community Discussion Series with the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.