2000

Auckland Youth Mentoring Association formed -an association of volunteers from education and business backgrounds, offering networking and self-help seminars for people involved in Youth Mentoring in the Auckland region

2001

Presented at NZ's second national conference in Blenheim,organised by the South Island- based Youth Mentoring Association of Aotearoa-New Zealand

2002

In association with COMET produced NZ's first YM publication- Youth Mentoring: An Advice Manual for Manukau and Beyond

2003

Hosted Resiliency presentation by US speaker Nan Henderson, among a range of other seminars

2004

Continued regional seminars and networking from Auckland base, reached limit of what could be achieved without funding

2005

Formed charitable trust to access philanthropic funds to undertake the role of national co-ordination since YMAANZ were no longer active

2006

Launched national website with funding from the JR Mackenzie Foundation

2007

Ran first Auckland-based national conference, supported by the Fletcher Trust, featuring Australian and local speakers

2008

Developed the first edition of the Guide to Effective Practice in Youth Mentoring, funded by the Ministry of Youth Development

2009

Launched the Guide to Effective Practice in Youth Mentoring and delivered our second National Youth Mentoring Conference,strengthening regional and international links

2010

Developed two training programmes to address the needs of the sector. "MentorPlus" focuses on mentoring skills development and "Mentoring Matters" focuses on mentor programme effective practice. Jane Edwards developed these programmes on behalf of NZYMN and was our inaugural training facilitator. In 2010 we also had the pleasure of hosting David Dubois, University of Illinois and co-editor of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring

2011

Ran our third biennial national conference and continued delivery of professional development training to the sector

2012

Developed foundational MentorPlus training to tie in with national qualifications in Youth Work. Appointed Nicki McDonald as General Manager and hosted leading USA academic, Dr Renee Spencer.

2013

In conjunction the Ministry of Health Children’s Action Plan directorate, developed the Safe Practices Guidelines for Youth Mentoring Programmes and ran our fourth biennial national conference

2014

In conjunction with Dr Pat Bullen, University of Auckland Lecturer and recipient of the 2014 Vodafone World of Difference Fellowship we commenced the mapping of the youth mentoring sector in order to establish a comprehensive and up-to-date database of organisations and practitioners offering mentoring services around the country.

2015

In conjunction with the University of Auckland we co-hosted two presentations by Professor Toni Zimmerman, Colorado State University and creator of the Campus Corps mentoring model. We have also recently hosted Professor Michael Karcher, University of Texas and co-editor of both editions of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring. We have commenced the refresh of the website and the 2ndedition of the Guide to Effective Practice in Youth Mentoring NZ.

2016

We published the 2nd Edition of our Guide to Effective and Safe Practice in Youth Mentoring; delivered a one day national conference followed by a series of Regional workshops to upskill people and communities on the new Guide, kindly funded by The Tindall Foundation.

2017

We completed the delivery of 18 regional workshops on the new Guide -522 people representing 262 organisations from Kaitaia to Invercargill attended.

2018

We successfully delivered the Involve 2018 National Youth Development Conference in collaboration with Ara Taiohi, the Peak Body for Youth Development, The Collaborative Trust and The Society of Youth Health Professional Aotearoa NZ.

2019

With further funding from The Tindall Foundation, we developed our second workshop in the Sharing the Kaupapa series - Quality Relationships in Youth Mentoring, and successfully delivered it in 15 locations across the motu. Through the workshops we met over 400 dedicated mentors working hard to support the rangatahi of Aotearoa. We also launched our new CONNECTIONS newsletter.

2020

The ‘stay home’ order of NZ’s Covid- 19 response pushed NZYMN to venture further into the virtual world – converted our Sharing the Kaupapa workshop into a zoom presentation and organized (in partnership) the INVOLVE digital conference with over a thousand participants.

2021

Its was a year of two halves. The first half relatively Covid free with workshops and INVOLVE Reunion conference going to plan. The second half, with Delta, seeing massive cancellations and postponements. With continued funding from The Tindall Foundation we were able to develop the 3rd workshop in our highly successful Sharing the Kaupapa regional series. However, with the exception of a pilot workshop in Cromwell, Central Otago all others had to be postponed.

2022

We are delighted to revive our planned Whai Wāhitanga workshops - delivering 18 around the Motu from June through to December and for the first time, a couple of the workshops were successfully delivered online to rave reviews.