Mentor Link - Mentoring Service for Children and Young People

Mentor Link is a children's charity dedicated to providing long-term one-to-one social and emotional support to vulnerable and distressed children and young people by providing them with volunteer mentor during difficult times in their lives. Our vision is a world where children and young people feel valued and supported. The wellbeing of the those we support forms the focus of our work. 

Locally and safely recruited, we train our mentors to offer support to those in need weekly across the West Midlands, in schools. Mentors provide long-term, one-to-one confidential listening support for an hour each week based on the needs of the mentee. Difficulties faced may include anxiety, self-harm and low-level mental health issues; low self-esteem and confidence; bullying, traumatic bereavement; and family breakdown. The aim of mentoring is to help these young people achieve positive changes both personally and educationally, and remain engaged with their education, families and community. 

EBSA Project - Emotionally based school avoidance.

We are now delivering an EBSA project around supporting children and young people back into their learning after periods of absence or with low attendance.  Our aim in this project is to provide support to a child at the earliest opportunity where there are issues with school attendance based on social and emotional needs. Working in partnership with parents to provide support and assistance with the long term aim of re engaging the child back into school learning.  Our mentors are trained and supervised by our Educational Psychologists.. 

Please get in touch if you would like to volunteer as a mentor.

We encourage enquiries from schools, parents and other referral organisations who would like to hear more about our service.