Listen to the Recording Watch the Video September 24th, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM MDT 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 webinar to learn how to use this resource to …
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 …
WEBINAR: Are You Covered? Mentoring Program Insurance 101 With Doug Tweddle
October 26th, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM MDT Register Now Join Doug Tweddle for an interview with the AMP team and an exclusive Q&A to ask your questions about insurance. 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 …
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 …
MentoringMinute July 2018 | Looking for Free Mentoring Summer School?
Looking for Free Mentoring Summer School? Looking to spice up your mentoring PD this summer? The AMP has a ton of resources to help you and your mentoring programs be the best they can be, including a Research Portal, informational webinars targeted to mentoring professionals, podcasts, mentoring program toolkits and much more: Visit our Research Portal for a selection of …
Nerd’s Corner: A Short Guide to Evaluative Thinking – Episode 19
Nerd’s Corner: A Short Guide to Evaluative Thinking: Jason Daniels joins us from the Evaluation Capacity Network and the Community University Partnership to share with us all about how we can use evaluative thinking in our work to improve our programs, policies and practices to enhance positive outcomes for children and youth. Click here to listen to the podcast! Download …