Mentee Dilemmas
Your mentee needs help with his/her English class. Where does he/she need to go?
Reading and Writing Center.
The Lead Peer Mentor this year
Toni Manigault
How will you keep in contact with your mentees?
Umassd Email
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
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)
Your mentee needs help with their math work. Where do they go?
Math and Business tutoring center.
The new Connect Program Coordinator
Suzanne Melloni
Where is Suzanne's office located?
ASAP Office- Fosters Building
A mentee keeps requesting to follow all of your social media. What do you do?
*Any good answer
Should not let them follow you.
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.
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
The Lead Faculty Advisor
Angeliki Kouma
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.
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
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
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.
Name 3 of the faculty advisors.
Romayne, Angeliki, Noemia, Kristen, Alexia, Sharon, Chris
What are the three things the mentees have to attend monthly?
1. One on one meetings
2. Group Meetings
3. Workshops
*Extra: Diverse activities
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
How many group meetings will you have a semester?
Three
*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.
Name all of the Peer Mentors.
Lead: Toni
Mentors:
Joli, Thomas, Carolyn, Liny, Wilson, Nicole, Sabriya
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.
Your mentee comes to you needing help in the bedroom.. what do you do?
*Any good answer
How many times a month do mentees have to meet with their advisors?
Once minimum.