When I put referred kids and mentors together, I want them to match. What I do doesn't make that much difference. Some perhaps lean in that direction, and that's one valid reason to find them a good match. Other reasons for mentor-mentee relationships can be a parent's lack of time or interest in a child, poverty or neglect, and many more. My job is to match mentors with kids.
Every teacher is a mentor of some sort.
And a mentor is a kind of teacher, too. He then goes on to say that he has done church mentoring, but the difference there is, that the youth will select an adult in the church to mentor in confirmation and training and other programs. That works great. Finding volunteers ought not be difficult. The mentor's job, on the other hand, takes only as much time as one wishes to spend with a friend-seeking youth.