Guidelines for Mentors of CSCSW’s Mentorship Program

We greatly appreciate your interest in and willingness to serve as a mentor for your fellow CSCSW colleagues. The role of mentor is both an honor and a responsibility that one must enter into with thoughtful intention and care. Mentoring the next generation of social work professionals is an excellent way to give back to the profession by sharing valuable expertise and knowledge as well as providing support and connection. Thoughtful and responsible mentorship requires an awareness by the mentor of any potential power dynamics, including one’s inherent privilege and positionality in juxtaposition with the mentee. The relationship between mentors and mentees should ultimately be one of mutual respect and benefit. 

The commitment is for one year.

Please review the following guidelines for mentors. These guidelines seek to provide structure and to set clear expectations for mentors to successfully execute their roles. You are acknowledging and agreeing to abide by these guidelines by signing below.