What if mentors want to spend additional time with their mentees?
We discourage mentors from spending long hours with their mentees away from the school. A once or twice a year activity is acceptable but it should always be a group activity. We have discovered that mentors who limit their commitment to one hour per week tend to mentor for longer periods of time than the mentors who throw themselves into the children. Share with the mentors that burnout is quiet and for the most part undetectable. The indicator that burnout is or has taken place is when a mentor decides (often for unspecified reasons) he/she does not want to mentor or see the children anymore.
