This blog post was written by Kristin Humphrey, Mentoring Director, Partners for Youth with Disabilities (PYD), a member organization in the National Disability Mentoring Coalition. As the 2015 year comes […]
On Saturday, September 13th, PYD hosted our first Career Mentor Brunch, in collaboration with Massachusetts Rehab Commission (MRC) with a mentor-for-a-day model. The event took place at the Institute for […]
In her groundbreaking autobiography, The Way I See It, Temple Grandin writes about the role mentors can play for people living with disabilities: “Mentors did, indeed, play a pivotal role […]
In honor of National Mentoring Month, PYD recently collaborated with Mass Mentoring Partnership to host a training for our Mentor Match participants on advocacy and lobbying. Participants learned how the […]
Starrmaine applied to PYD’s Mentor Match program in 2008 when she was 11 years old, in search of a mentor who would make her feel special and lend an open […]
There is only one week left to sign up for the 2013 Massachusetts Youth Leadership Forum (YLF)! YLF is an incredible leadership opportunity for selected youth with disabilities to attend […]
Recently in the “Chronicles for Evidence Based Mentoring” — an online source for sharing new findings and ideas about youth mentoring — there was an article written that highlighted PYD’s recent […]
Research shows that a mentoring relationship with structure has a better chance of being successful; setting goals together as a match is one great way to build structure. Here are […]