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 …
REAL TALK WITH BROCK(U) Learnings from the Brock Healthy Youth Project – Episode 30
Adolescence often is characterized as a health paradox because it is a time of extensive increases in physical and mental capabilities, yet mortality and injury rates increase significantly from childhood to adolescence. In fact, the adolescent years may be a sensitive time for engagement in health-risk behaviours (e.g., substance use, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, risky sexual activity), which can have …
Let’s Talk Masculinity — Tips For Mentors
“Supporting young people in exploring gender and navigating difference is an essential part of preparing them for an increasingly complex, global, interconnected society and workforce.” MENTOR has recently released a new guide: “Conversations about Masculinity: How Mentors Can Support Young Men of Color” What do healthy expressions of manhood or masculinity mean to you? What did you think about the …
Help Your Local School Start a Mentoring Program With This Tool
The Framework for Building Mentoring Relationships in Schools is a resource for schools and school authorities that want to implement a mentoring initiative for children and youth who could benefit from being involved in a mentoring relationship. This framework includes: an overview of possible approaches and models of school-based mentoring relationships an outline of benefits for different models of mentoring …
WEBINAR: REAL TALK WITH BROCK(U): Learnings from the Brock Healthy Youth Project
WEBINAR March 20th, 12pm – 1PM MST Adolescence often is characterized as a health paradox because it is a time of extensive increases in physical and mental capabilities, yet mortality and injury rates increase significantly from childhood to adolescence. In fact, the adolescent years may be a sensitive time for engagement in health-risk behaviours (e.g., substance use, physical inactivity, poor …
More Males Mentoring: What Practices Have You Tried to Successfully Recruit More Men to Your Mentoring Program?
The AMP is searching for 3-5 mentoring community program leaders to join the 3M (More Males Mentoring) Task Force to take place between February – June 2019. The meeting could include an in-person gathering as well as video or teleconferences with the goal of a completed resource toolkit by February 2020. To apply please email michael.janz@albertamentors.ca with a two or …
13 Steps That Help Define A Quality Mentoring Program. Do you Complete all 13 Steps?
The Alberta Mentoring Partnership has a multitude of tools and resources to help you create a mentoring program along with more specific resources to help bring your program to the next level, including considerations for creating mentoring programs for special populations. Get started now, and download the Creating a Quality, Community-Based Mentoring Program Toolkit. Quality mentoring is mentoring that produces …
Mentoring in the news, where is your story?
#MENTORINGMONTH IN THE NEWS When mentoring is in the news anywhere, it helps make the case for mentoring everywhere. As #mentoringmonth draws to a close, help us reach 100 positive mentoring stories. Here are four that we’ve captured so far. It’s not too late! Did we miss yours? Big Brothers Big Sisters in need of volunteers: Medicine Hat News (January …