Press Release: Canadian Mentoring Partnership Launches Now Recruiting Management Team to Support Youth Mentoring in Canada

Today, the Canadian Mentoring Partnership (CMP) announced its senior leadership and identified its first order of business: to recruit a strong management team. Canadian Mentoring Partnership is Canada’s first coalition of organizations that provide youth mentoring.  Its mandate is to build sector capacity to expand access to mentoring across Canada. CMP was launched by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada, the Alberta Mentoring Partnership …

WEBINAR: Innovative Mentoring Programs: Supporting Youth Involved in the Legal System with a Mental Health Diagnosis – Mary Lee Block

Healthy habits and healthy relationships are essential for all youth, especially those with more complex needs. How does your mentoring program support wrap-around service supports, and how can you better work together with partners? The Forensic Adolescent Program is an Alberta Health Services program for adolescent youth who are involved in the legal system and have a mental health diagnosis. …

WEBINAR: Mentoring as an early intervention: A proactive approach to youth homelessness with David French, A Way Home

“Did you know that your youth mentoring program actually acts as a protective factor against youth homelessness? In addition to the multitude of other positive academic and social outcomes that a quality mentoring relationship provides, the role of a mentor in growing natural supports and resilience in a young person was identified as an important Early Intervention in the recently …

WEBINAR: Youth Workplace Mentoring Opportunity Workbook

What is Youth Workplace Mentoring? A Youth Workplace Mentoring Program (commonly referred to a Corporate Mentoring Program) is a relationship between a mentoring organization and a business that results in the creation of a Youth Workplace Mentoring Program between employees and kids. The program offers mentoring organizations the opportunity to recruit employees as volunteer mentors and gives businesses a means …

WEBINAR: Starting a mentoring program 101: Creating a Quality, Community-Based Mentoring Program

You can rewatch the Webinar below We’re excited to announce that we have revised our ‘Creating a Quality, Community Based Mentoring Program’ information toolkit. The booklet contains the key steps and related tool necessary in developing an effective, quality, community-based mentoring program. Quality mentoring is mentoring that produces significant, lasting, positive outcomes for mentees. It is responsible, ethical, effective mentoring. …

WEBINAR: PRIDE MONTH MENTORING SPECIAL FEATURE: LGBTQ2S+ Youth Facing Barriers-PRISM program. Scott Grace, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Calgary & Area for Youth

WEBINAR Join us for a lunch and learn this PRIDE month to learn more about how you can expand and enhance your mentoring programs for LGBTQ2S+ youth. Scott Grace recently joined us at AMP Learning Day and helped challenge us with thoughtful tips and insights gained from front line service. The webinar format will provide an opportunity for you to ask questions, so …

Connecting With Kids Builds Positive Future For Us All.

MAGGIE M. MUNCH March 23, 2019 “Deep human connection is… the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.”— Melinda Gates Here’s a question for you. Do you remember you, before you were you? Before all the choices you made and the people who cared along …