The Fostering Adolescent Skills through Mentoring (FASM) evidence-based training curriculum utilizes targeted skill development to promote healthy development and positive outcomes for teens. FASM is designed to enhance the impact of current mentoring by training mentors to engage in goal setting and skill-building activities during their individual mentoring visits with youth. The mentor training curriculum includes modules on visioning and goal setting, fostering motivation to achieve goals, emotion regulation and adaptive coping, healthy communication, and healthy goodbyes. Mentors then support teens’ learning and practicing of important social skills, matching the unique strengths and needs of individual mentees with targeted skills training.

FASM uses the curriculum developed in the evidence-based Fostering Healthy Futures® for Teens program, which has demonstrated positive outcomes, including increasing permanency and reducing delinquency.

Implementation of Fostering Adolescent Skills through Mentoring

FASM trainers provide agency staff with the FASM curriculum and then coach them in implementing the manualized mentor training. FASM trainers review video of agency staff training mentors and then provide biweekly coaching to ensure fidelity. Organizations are a good fit for FASM if they: (1) provide mentoring or individual (one-on-one) services to youth ages 13-18 (2) have the organizational and staff capacity to provide ongoing training to mentors, (3) wish to enhance their mentoring practices, and (4) are amenable to training and coaching by FASM trainers.

For information, please contact Michel Holien