06 Jul 17
We are nearing the completion of our regional workshop series on the new Guide to Youth Mentoring with just 4 more to go. Over the last year we have delivered 14 of these around the country with our latest ones being in Hokitika and Gisborne. Thanks to significant funding support from The Tindall Foundation we have been able to make these really accessible with 374 people attending them so far. Many participants are telling us that the opportunity to network and establish connections with others in the community, and at the same time gain a better understanding of what is involved in youth mentoring is just awesome.
Attendees at Gisborne workshop earlier this week
Registrations are now open for Wellington, West Auckland and Invercargill and will be opening soon for Blenheim so be sure to keep an eye on our website or 'like' our facebook page to keep up to date.
Venue: Walter Nash Centre, 22 Taine Street, Taita, Lower Hutt, Wellington
Date: Wednesday 26 July 2017
Time: 9.00am - 3.30pm
Registration fee: $35 inclusive GST and booking free. You will also receive a copy of the new Guide and a comprehensive workbook
Register and purchase your tickets to the workshop online now
To find out more about this workshop download the one page flyer flyer_Wellington
Date and time: Tuesday 8 August, 9.00am to 3.30pm
Venue: Kelston Community Centre, 135 Awaroa Rd
Date and time: Tuesday 22 August, 9.00am to 3.30pm
Venue: Frontline Training Consultancy, 416 Dee Street, Gladstone, Invercargill
Registration fee: $35 inclusive GST and booking free. You will also receive a copy of the new Guide and a comprehensive workbook
There are two very interesting blogs from Jean Rhodes at the Chronicle this month that I want to share with you.
The first looks at the Future of Mentoring. It argues that if we are serious about redressing social inequality, we need to do more to connect low-income youth with a range of caring adults who can help them invent and achieve a promising future. It advocates that mentoring initiatives should be broadened to scaffold young people’s ability to recruit caring adults, and new approaches are showing promising results, such as the Youth-Initiated Mentoring (YIM) approach, where youth nominate adults to serve as their mentors, selecting from among the adults who are already in their social networks. https://chronicle.umbmentoring.org/future-mentoring-infographic/?ct=t(June_21_20176_21_2017)&mc_cid=d523b4fe17&mc_eid=800be7d9b0
In Rhodes second blog, she talks about why idealised approaches to mentoring can be problematic and suggests a more pragmatic, operational approach that is grounded in ensuring programmes adopt a set of minimum evidence-based standards. It’s not about lowering expectations as much as changing them. https://chronicle.umbmentoring.org/expecting-unicorns-mistakes-ive-made/
Please pass this e-newsletter on to others in your community who work with young people and have an interest in mentoring and like our facebook page to keep up to date.
Ngā mihi nui
Nicki McDonald
New Zealand Youth Mentoring Network
PO Box 99726 Newmarket
M: 027 520 2981
E: nicki@youthmentoring.org.nz
