TY - JOUR TI - Virtual Community Mentoring Models for Middle School Underachievers Psychosocial Development and Well-Being During COVID-19 AU - Gomes, Roseline Florence AU - Thomas, Lijo T2 - Journal of Learning for Development AB - 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. DA - 2022/03/15/ PY - 2022 DP - jl4d.org VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 137 EP - 144 LA - en SN - 2311-1550 UR - https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/614 Y2 - 2022/04/05/12:27:13 KW - COVID-19 KW - Psychosocial Development KW - Virtual Community Models KW - ⛔ No DOI found ER -