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The Mentoring Committee was established with the goal of enhancing the quality and availability of mentoring within clinical geropsychology. As the population ages, the need for well-trained clinical geropsychologists is growing; mentors can play a key role in expanding this workforce. Mentoring involves pairing a more experienced person with a less experienced person for the purpose of imparting skills and providing advice and guidance that will help the less experienced person move to the next level. Mentoring can take place in the context of both short-term and long-term relationships, formal and informal, at any level of training from undergraduate through professional, and in any domain, including clinical as well as research activities. Activities of the Mentoring Committee have focused on surveying current mentoring practices and programs, and disseminating information through publications, presentations and a website. | 
