Mentor Toolkit: Open doors for mentees with an ecomap

captured-ecomap#EverydayMentoring Weekly Tip from The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern PA 

Helping youth network can be frustrating when you aren’t sure how to connect kids to key people who can help them achieve their goals. But it isn’t always as difficult as it seems! One approach that can make this process easier is to develop an ecomap.

Helping youth network can be frustrating when you aren’t sure how to connect kids to key people who can help them achieve their goals. But it isn’t always as difficult as it seems! One approach that can make this process easier is to develop an ecomap.

An ecomap reveals the community of support that surrounds a child in their neighborhood, school, extended family and friends. Even when youth think they have no one to help them, an ecomap can reveal all sorts of valuable connections.  Sign up for weekly tips from the #EverydayMentoring newsletter.


Ecomap Toolkit:  Ecomap Toolkit PDF

Created by: Beyond Research

Description:

Similar to the genogram, the ecomap is a resource finder that helps us delve into a goldmine of relationships.  An ecomap serves to capture the networks that your client moves around in.

The Ecomap Toolkit:

Working with ecomaps
Drawing an ecomap
Matching strengths with resources
Examples of ecomaps from mentees
How do you make hidden ties visible?
Are genograms and ecomaps the same?
Breakout Exercises