: About Me

I am writing you this article under "How mentoring an adult differs from mentoring a youth. Yes, how is mentoring an adult is different than mentoring a youth? My name is Valerie Klaassen, and I am a 53-year-old woman with a disability which I was born with by birth. Now from time to time, I have been looking for a mentor who can mentor me and will help me get my life and myself back on my own two feet. I have tried the Traumatic Brain Injury Association of Northern Virginia in Springfield and Fairfax, Virginia to get a mentor through the case worker, and they won't even help me at all, be...