TY - JOUR AU - Gomes, Roseline Florence AU - Thomas, Lijo PY - 2022/03/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Virtual Community Mentoring Models for Middle School Underachievers Psychosocial Development and Well-Being During COVID-19 JF - Journal of Learning for Development JA - JL4D VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Reports from the Field DO - 10.56059/jl4d.v9i1.614 UR - https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/614 SP - 137-144 AB - <p>Recent studies highlight the outcomes of COVID-19 on the psychosocial skills of early adolescents. It shows the unavailability of virtual community mentoring models for teenagers' individual and interpersonal growth in the virtual scenario. Hence, there emerges a need to explore and apply the available virtual communication resources by facilitators, families, and other community professionals for teenagers’ self-development. This article reports the application of virtual resources like WhatsApp, graphic design platforms (CANVA and Adobe), graphic interchange formats (GIPHY App), all-in-one visual content editing forums (InShot App), and memes (Meme Generator App) in engaging and supporting community mentoring capacities leading to psychosocial development and well-being for teenagers during COVID-19. Through this article, contemporary virtual models are explored and executed with community guidance to integrate the personal developmental skills of middle school underachievers. There is also a need to work with community interventions by using virtual mentoring skillsets for positive youth development.</p> ER -