Welcome to campus (or welcome back) everyone!

Mentor and Mentee applications for OUTreach Peer Mentors are now available. Our  
program trains current Dartmouth
students as mentors to help peers develop a positive LGBTQ identity while successfully
adapting to life at Dartmouth.

The program hopes to help students explore their personal interests, take advantage
of campus resources, and find their own sense of community.

If you're interested in becoming an OUTreach mentee or mentor, fill out the appropriate
attached form. Note that in nearly all cases, mentors must be from the class of
2014 or above. Some prior experience navigating Dartmouth's LGBTQ community helps
a lot in mentoring.

Interested in being a mentee? Here's what some of our mentors have to say about
their past experience as a mentee:

"My LGBTQ Mentor helped me integrate into the LGBTQ community here. He introduced
me to other members of the community who were his friends and also discussed with
me my concerns over food almost weekly. As such, it provided with me with a means
for having my questions answered, my concerns overcome, and my identity more comfortably
discovered and thus made my freshman year overall a whole lot easier."

"I want to help LGBTQ students in the same way that my mentor helped me, and I
want to be able to give back to a community that I am just discovering and that
has welcomed me in a wonderful way. Coming to school for me also meant coming
out for the first time, and it added a lot of stress and uncertainty to my freshman
year. I learned that I could talk to people, and it meant a lot to always have
someone special to lean on who had gone through similar experiences, and I want
to be that person for someone else now."

Our program establishes mentorships with varying degrees of confidentiality. If
you're concerned about strict confidentiality, please make a note of it on your
application and we will ensure that your level of comfort is respected.

Deadlines:
Our mentor training for the fall will be conducted THIS SUNDAY from 1-6 pm. All
mentors interested in training this fall must submit applications by 6 pm this
Saturday, Sept. 24. The next training opportunity will be spring term.

Mentee applications can be submitted whenever they are completed. To ensure matching
with a mentor this fall, please submit your applications by Saturday, Oct. 1 at
noon. Applications are accepted at any time.

Blitz this account with confidential questions and concerns whenever!

We're here for you,
OUTreach Peer Mentors
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~opm/