TDCJ Chaplaincy
Mentor Training
The following guidelines will help you do your best as a volunteer.
- Be yourself
- Mean what you say
- Be supportive and encouraging
- Show respect and earn respect
- Accept them as they are, not as you wish they were
- Be patient
- Don’t give out your home address or phone number
- Don’t over identify
- Don’t put money on their account
- Don’t fall in love
Another volunteer asks you to put money on the account of an indigent
offender at a unit where you do not volunteer. He claims that the rule
only applies to the unit where you volunteer.You tell him that you are unable to do this.
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