Mentoring Webinars
Two topics that AMP regularly hears are of importance to mentoring organizations are how to engage male mentors and how to appropriately screen all mentors. Two upcoming webinars, each hosted by mentoring organizations in the U.S., address these issues.
These mentoring webinars are highlighted below –
1. Where are All of the Men? Finding Male Mentors and Keeping Them
MANY (the Mid-Atlantic Network of Youth & Family Services) is hosting a webinar on March 26th about finding and engaging male volunteers. They share the following description of the webinar:
Finding and engaging male volunteers for your mentoring program can be challenging. This interactive working session will assist participants in developing targeted recruitment plans and implementing effective strategies to engage more men in their mentoring programs – and to keep them there long-term!
For more information and to register, visit:
http://manynet.org/public/events/eventcalendar.aspx
2. Mentor Screening and Youth Protection
The next session in the Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series, facilitated by MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership and a team of mentoring professionals, takes place on March 20. They share the following description of the session:
Screening potential volunteers continues to be one of the most over-looked yet crucial steps for any program that places children and youth with adult volunteers. […] please join us as contributing author to the Handbook of Youth Mentoring (and CMWS member) Sarah Kremer reviews research and organizational implications from her chapter, Mentor Screening and Youth Protection.
For more information and to register, visit:
http://www.mentoring.org/program_resources/training_opportunities/collaborative_mentoring_webinar_series