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Understanding youth mentoring in Aotearoa

Understanding youth mentoring in Aotearoa

November 10th 2025 The Youth Mentoring Sector Insights report is a first-of-its-kind study into the scale and delivery of youth mentoring in Aotearoa. It was designed to help us understand just how widely youth mentori Read more

Getting to know Ko Wai Au: Empowering Rangatahi to Be, Belong, and Become

Getting to know Ko Wai Au: Empowering Rangatahi to Be, Belong, and Become

November 3rd 2025 Founded by Georgina and Andrew, Ko Wai Au is a mentoring initiative that helps young people reconnect with their roots and discover their identity. We asked Georgina to share how the kaupapa began, Read more

Autonomy in Action

Autonomy in Action

September 30th 2025 It was a delight to attend the presentation by Dr Hilary Dutton at the 2025 INVOLVE conference in Ōtautahi Christchurch. For some time now Hilary, with the support of a Rutherford Fellowship, has ha Read more

Mentoring with Purpose: MacStrong

Mentoring with Purpose: MacStrong

July 2nd 2025 “Tell me about your point of difference? “was the question I put to Delane and Jono from MacStrong. The response came back “We don’t have a space.” On one level this is a bit unusual and Read more

Reaching the regions: how we deliver workshops

Reaching the regions: how we deliver workshops

June 5th 2025 I remember my first day employed by the Youth Mentoring Network. I'd caught a flight down to Palmerston North the night before, a place I hadn't been to since speeding through it on a road trip down Read more

Youth, mentoring, and the media

Youth, mentoring, and the media

May 21st 2025 Public perception of our youth often seems to be shaped more by sensational headlines than reality. We can see this daily: a quick study of online search behaviour shows that the most common use of t Read more

Matariki Year 8 to Matariki Year 11: Success at Junior High School

Matariki Year 8 to Matariki Year 11: Success at Junior High School

March 26th 2025 In November 2024 two taiohi from Thames joined an Upskilling Young Kaimahi workshop in Tauranga. They had a story to tell about their mahi with rangatahi in their hometown. So on a glorious day in Read more

First Impressions of Youth Mentoring

First Impressions of Youth Mentoring

March 26th 2025 Jumping in at the deep end In the first four months in my role at the Youth Mentoring Network I’ve received a crash-course in life in the youth sector, have polished up my personal mentoring & Read more

Top Tips for Working with Volunteers

Top Tips for Working with Volunteers

March 26th 2025 This post first appeared in our newsletter ‘Connections’ ins the summer of 2020/2021. REP is a programme that brings community volunteers into a school setting, to support Year 9 students with Read more

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