Online Mentor Training 101 Unveiling the NEW AMP Online Mentor Training Over 10,000 Alberta mentors have been trained using the Alberta Mentoring Partnership’s Online Mentor Training over the last 5 years. Now, the training has been refreshed and revised taking into account new developments in brain science and adolescent development and has integrated the feedback from front-line mentoring practitioners in …
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The AMP Team Met With Jamil Jivani — Author of “Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity”
The AMP met with Jamil Jivani, author of “Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity”, to discuss mentoring throughout Alberta in his journey across Canada on his #RoadHomeCanada. When meeting with Jamil, we had a chance to ask him a couple of hard-hitting questions commonly asked in the mentoring community: Why is it important that men become …
Are You Covered? Mentoring Program Insurance 101 With Doug Tweddle – Episode 27
Are You Covered? Mentoring Program Insurance 101 With Doug Tweddle All mentoring programs undertake substantial risk simply due to the nature of the services being provided. A program has a duty of care to its participants, and could be held liable if harm comes to a child, youth or volunteer as a result of accident, injury or abuse. As such, …
Children and Youth in Care and Mentoring Program Design – Episode 26
Children and Youth in Care and Mentoring Program Design Download the new Children and Youth in Care and Mentoring program Design Document here: albertamentors.ca/yic-mentoring While all young people experience profound benefits from a mentoring relationship, some young people have experienced more barriers and require a mentor with more sophisticated training, support and a deliberate program design. Join us for a …
The Common Outcomes Initiative Evaluation from a Funder Perspective with Kim Turcotte and Sheilah Pittman – Episode 25
AMP Learning Day 2018: The Common Outcomes Initiative Evaluation from a Funder Perspective with Kim Turcotte and Sheilah Pittman Common Outcomes Initiative (COI) began close to two decades ago. It is a partnership between three major funders and funded agencies who have worked together to develop common outcomes, indicators and evaluation processes. In 2017, the Common Outcomes Initiative participated in …
Outcome measurement and Evaluation with Cynthia Wild – Episode 24
AMP Learning Day 2018: Outcome measurement and Evaluation with Cynthia Wild Cynthia is the Director of Service Delivery for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Calgary and Area and shares with us learnings, Insights, and tangible tips on how to improve your outcome measurement and evaluation practices in your work in a mid to large size mentoring agency. From communicating to …
Learnings from the Circle Project with Stacey Dakin – Episode 23
AMP Learning Day 2018: Learnings from the Circle Project with Stacey Dakin Join us as Stacey Dakin, the Circle Project Manager, leads us through a presentation on program design, training considerations and program evaluation. Originally titled, “Mentoring for Change, Mentoring for Good”, the Circle Project is a partnership between BBBSC and three member agencies, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Grand …
Data Strategies to Improve Collective Outcomes with Jason Lau – Episode 22
AMP Learning Day 2018: Data Strategies to Improve Collective Outcomes with Jason Lau Data Strategies to Improve Collective Outcomes: This presentation is an introduction to the Secondary Analysis to Generate Evidence (SAGE) initiative and overview of preliminary results from a survey we are sending out to get a better understanding of community organizations’ current practices and needs related to data …
Better Grants, Better Evaluations With Terri Dauter – Episode 21
AMP Learning Day 2018: Better Grants, Better Evaluations With Terri Dauter How can you build evaluation processes into your work? This project targets marginalized and behaviorally challenged youth who are at risk of dropping out of school, perpetuating familial and social cycles of poverty, sexual abuse, violence, addiction and mental illness by building capacity through healthy relationships. While we didn’t …
The Alberta Mentoring Partnership Learning Day 2018 – Episode 20
AMP Learning Day 2018 While we didn’t host a National Mentoring Symposium in 2018, the Alberta Mentoring Partnership in conjunction with the Faculty of Extension (U of A) and the Community University Partnership were excited to host AMP Learning Day 2018! A learning day specifically themed around research, evaluation, and knowledge mobilization— with a focus on tangible, pragmatic tactics you …