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Being a Peer Mentor
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Your mentee needs help with his/her English class. Where does he/she need to go?

Reading and Writing Center.

100

The Lead Peer Mentor this year

Toni Manigault

100

How will you keep in contact with your mentees?

Umassd Email

100

Your mentee is constantly calling you their "best friend" and you find them getting way too attached to you. How do you handle the situation?

*Any good answer

100

What is a peer mentor?

a form of mentorship that usually takes place between a person who has lived through a specific experience (peer mentor) and a person who is new to that experience (the peer mentee)

200

Your mentee needs help with their math work. Where do they go?

Math and Business tutoring center.

200

The new Connect Program Coordinator 

Suzanne Melloni

200

Where is Suzanne's office located?

ASAP Office- Fosters Building

200

A mentee keeps requesting to follow all of your social media. What do you do?

*Any good answer

Should not let them follow you.

200

How many 1 on 1 meetings do you have a month?

At least 1. Aim for 2 (beginning and end) or as often as a mentee needs to meet.

300

When your mentee is explaining that they are having anxiety about college and having a hard time dealing with the pressure and stress. Where do you tell them to go?

Counseling Center

300

The Lead Faculty Advisor

Angeliki Kouma

300

What is Connect?

Connect is a program at UMass Dartmouth that helps incoming Freshman students in doing good their first year of college. Connect gives these students the resources to ensure they do well their first year, such as a peer mentor, a faculty adviser that they work closely with, and enroll them in smaller classrooms all to make sure they succeed. 

300

You have a mentee who keeps being inappropriate with you and trying to cross boundaries during your one on ones and through texts/ emails. What do you do?

Report to Suzanne or Toni

*Any other good answer

300

What is a mandated reporter?

Examples are welcome

people who have regular contact with vulnerable people and are therefore legally required to ensure a report is made when abuse is observed or suspected. 

or any variation of that

400

You have reached out to your mentee multiple times and they are still being unresponsive. What do you do?

Forward Toni and Suzanne the emails you have sent to them and have them reach out to take further action.

400

Name 3 of the faculty advisors.

Romayne, Angeliki, Noemia, Kristen, Alexia, Sharon, Chris

400

What are the three things the mentees have to attend monthly?

1. One on one meetings

2. Group Meetings

3. Workshops 

*Extra: Diverse activities 

400

You see your mentee out at a party and they ask you to take some shots with them. What do you do?

Do not take the shots!!

*Any variation of that, with other advice

400

How many group meetings will you have a semester?

Three

500

*You keep having meetings with this one mentee, who just stares at you the whole time and does not say anything the whole time throughout your meetings. What do you do?

Any answer is acceptable.

500

Name all of the Peer Mentors.

Lead: Toni

Mentors:

Joli, Thomas, Carolyn, Liny, Wilson, Nicole, Sabriya

500

Name 4 of the rules on the contract.

1. 2.0 GPA                      6. Attend Experience Day

2. 24 Credits                   7. Attend Classes

3. Meet with PM              8. Keep up with emails

4. Meet with AA          9. 15hrs Community Service

5. Complete Summer Bridge  

                                10. Follow any other rules put in place by PM, AA, Shelby, or Toni. 

500

Your mentee comes to you needing help in the bedroom.. what do you do?

*Any good answer

500

How many times a month do mentees have to meet with their advisors?

Once minimum. 

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