Mentoring a young person involves:

• becoming a wise and trusted friend 
• encouraging a caring and supportive relationship
• encouraging them to develop to their fullest potential
• empowering them with key life skills
• encouraging and inspiring them to develop their own vision for the future
• helping them to set and attain realistic, achievable and measurable goals
• encouraging their ongoing improvement in academic studies and health and fitness
• helping them to improve their self-worth/self-image, pride and confidence levels

Becoming a Project K mentor offers opportunities to:

• Contribute to a young person's life and support them to reach their potential
• Support a Project K student to set and achieve goals using the FIRM criteria
• Develop a positive mentor relationship
• Learn about current youth issues
• Achieve personal development through the experiences and learning from mentoring
• Empower a young person to make positive and healthy decisions
• Contribute and ‘give back’ to the community through offering support and understanding to a young person
• Be a positive role model
• Have fun with young people and Project K mentors and programme staff
• Receive ongoing support and personal development opportunities from Project K staff
• Develop peer support networks with other Project K mentors
• Celebrate achievements from mentoring relationships