Mentee applications for OUTreach Peer Mentors are still available! To apply, simply  
complete the attached form and send it to the OUTreach Peer Mentors account.

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.

Please note that OUTreach 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.


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."


Mentee applications can be submitted whenever they are completed. To ensure matching  
with a mentor this fall, however, please submit your applications by Saturday,  
Oct. 1 at noon. Again, applications will be 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/