Family Mentor

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A VERY REWARDING EXPERIENCE

Purpose: To provide support, tracking (sweat equity), and education for future deserving homeowner families.

Responsibilities and Duties:

Assist families throughout the entire process of becoming homeowners (answering questions, helping with planning and budgeting, recording sweat-equity hours, identifying other community resources, follow-up explanations of training workshop materials, providing home maintenance tips, etc.).

Qualifications:

Good listener and relationship builder, sensitive to issues that may result from living with a limited income, confidentiality, willingness to learn sweat equity guidelines. willing to participate in construction workdays on occasion.

Commitment Required:

For the length of assigned family partnership. From approval to home ownership can be up to two years. Partners usually meet twice a month, maybe more often toward the end of the program.

Work Location:

Monthly team meetings at Habitat Restore, meet with family regularly with location to be determined.

Training:

Training includes review of habitat’s history and mission, affiliate policies and procedures, purposes of family support, one on one training with current mentor.