Mentoring Providers
Great Potentials Foundation: MATES
Great Potentials Foundation is a charitable trust for the promotion of education and parental support. We are in communities that need help to unleash the potential of their children, young people and parents. Our purpose is a broad one - Helping children, young people and families towards brighter futures.
We offer various programmes, including MATES (Mentoring and Tutoring Education Scheme), which addresses the underachievement in education of disadvantaged and vulnerable youth in 14 schools across Auckland, New Zealand.
Programme details
Overview
The programme MATES aims to achieve significant progress in academic achievement, school engagement, self-efficacy and social skills for vulnerable early adolescents by pairing at-risk students with university mentors. MATES intervenes in a young person's education at two key transition points:
Year 8: the transition from intermediate to high school (MATES Junior)
Year 13: the transition from high school to tertiary education (MATES Senior)
Regions
About the mentoring
The age we mentor is 12 years old (MATES Junior) and 17 years old (MATES Senior). The mentoring approach is one-on-one and group-based, which is expected to last at least one academic year with weekly meetings.
Contact details
Teri Fong Murray
09 377 5384
teri.fong@greatpotentials.org.nz
