Mentoring creates positive impact in youth’s lives and those with mentors have higher rates of graduation and are less likely to drop out of school or career paths.

They find more self-confidence, self-esteem, and are able to create big goals for themselves. Additionally, studies show that behavior, attitudes, and relationships improve when a youth has a mentor. Mentors help youth grow and close the social and/or economic opportunity gap . The key to the development of leaders for the health care professions is mentoring. Both leaders and mentors need to develop their own self-knowledge, strategic visions for their own careers, engage in risk-taking, express creativity through all aspects of their lives, feel inspired and inspire.