Mentoring
In 2015, CARAS began a mentoring program to help connect graduate students and early career professionals working with and/or researching alternative sexualities with more experienced researchers, faculty, and professionals. The goal of the program is to encourage the full development of the next generation of scholars and researchers addressing alternative sexualities communities, relationships, and family structures, and to help prepare professionals in health and other fields serve the needs of members of alternative sexualities communities.
The CARAS Mentoring Program involves a one-on-one mentoring relationship. The program matches graduate students and early-career professionals in academic, research, counseling, and other alternative-sexualities related career paths with more advanced scholars and professionals. The mentoring program has also matched community members engaged in scholarly or professional projects (e.g., public health initiatives) that would benefit from a mentoring relationship. Mentors and mentees commit to talking at least once a month by video conference, phone, or email during the duration of the mentoring program.
Beginning in 2024, the CARAS Mentoring Program will have an annual eight-month cycle from March-October. Applications for the 2024 Mentoring Cohort are currently open, please see the linked mentee and mentor applications below.
For current information, please visit https://carasresearch.org/mentoring (this page) and/or contact mentoring@carasresearch.org.
Please join the CARAS Announce List for updates about the CARAS Mentoring Program and other CARAS activities!
2024 Mentoring Cohort
Apply to be a CARAS Mentee or Mentor!
Applications for the 2024 Mentoring Cohort are open! Applications are due on Monday, December 18, 2023. Mentee and Mentor matches will be introduced by February, 2024.
2024 Cohort Mentee Application:
https://forms.gle/agSa1GBwxccKFM3y8
2024 Cohort Mentor Application:
https://forms.gle/bbvxRkLC5TfUbVS79
CARAS Mentoring Program, 2024 Cohort Meetings
Matched mentees and mentors will be invited to a Mentoring Program Orientation Meeting to be held in February, 2024.
During the period of the 2024 Mentoring Program, from March to October 2024, we will host Group Mentoring Meetings that will provide presentations on topics relevant to mentoring program participants and opportunities for mentees to discuss their work. The Group Mentoring Meetings are open to any CARAS subscriber and will be announced via CARAS media.
For questions and additional information, please email mentoring@carasresearch.org
CARAS Mentoring Program Expectations
Complete the Mentoring Program application.
Attend a Mentoring Program Orientation Meeting in February, 2024.
Complete a Goals Statement before your first one-on-one with your mentoring partner.
Reply to your mentoring partner within one week of being introduced.
Discuss goals and milestones during the first one-on-one with your mentoring partner.
Attend at least three CARAS events (e.g., Webinar, Group Mentoring Meeting, C2C Conference), in addition to the monthly one-on-one meetings of mentees and mentors.
Mentees are expected to provide a short update / presentation to other mentees and mentors about what you are learning or working on during a Group Mentoring Meeting, between March and October 2024.
If you have any questions, please contact mentoring@carasresearch.org