Peer Mentoring
Bridges to Adelphi is looking for undergraduate students to be a part of their peer mentoring program.
The Bridges to Adelphi Program, which offers academic, social, and vocational support services to Adelphi students who self-disclose with Autism Spectrum Disorder or other non-verbal learning disorders, is seeking Adelphi undergraduate students to be a part of peer mentoring program. This is a volunteer position.
We seek individuals with patience, dedication, reliability, and passion, who communicate effectively and have strong time management. The Bridges to Adelphi Program has been known to be an excellent and educationally enriching training site for graduate and undergraduate students to gain experience in a field of service, specifically working with individuals on the autism spectrum or any other non-verbal or neurological-social disorders.
Peer Mentors will need to meet with either one student once a week or two students twice a week. These meetings are typically one hour long and there is a report the peer mentor has to complete. The reports don’t take longer than 15 minutes to complete.
Want to become a Peer Mentor? Please email bridges@adelphi.edu.
About the Peer Mentor Position
This is a volunteer position to meet with a student once a week to develop and maintain a peer relationship, focused on helping students transition to campus life and establish a sense of community.
You must be:
- A current Adelphi student
- Willing to commit to a minimum of a full year of volunteer service
- Able to meet with paired mentee a minimum of once a week for 1 hour
- Able to submit documentation in a timely, consistent, clear manner
- Communicative with designated supervisor (during supervision as well as via email)
- Reliable, consistent, and dependable in providing service
- Able to follow policies and procedures, and uphold confidentiality
- All peer mentors report to a designated supervisor and receive supervision through feedback within reports as well as meetings to guide you throughout this process.
- Meeting with your assigned Mentee a minimum of once per week for 1 hour
- Develop and maintain peer relationships, focused on helping students transition to campus life and establish a sense of community
- Guide students on navigating the social aspects of campus life
- Help to facilitate student engagement in social activities and events
- Implement suggestions from students’ team members
- Submit reports within 24/48 hours; other duties as assigned
- Opportunity to build healthy mentoring relationships with new students
- Develop leadership, organizational, and self-management skills
- Increase knowledge and understanding of neurodiverse individuals
- Improve communication and interpersonal skills