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Mentoring in Action

Youth Mentoring Week – Sunday 25 October to Saturday 31 October 2009

Join youth mentoring programs across Victoria and Australia in celebrating Youth Mentoring Week 2009.

Youth Mentoring Week is a celebration throughout Australia of youth mentoring and all its success, potential and opportunity. The week provides a valuable opportunity to:

celebrate the positive impact on young people;

recognise and celebrate the contribution of mentors;

raise the profile and promote the benefits of quality youth mentoring;

recruit more mentors; and

seek support for mentoring through mentor recruitment and partnerships within communities and including business.

The Victorian Government, Youth Mentoring Network and Victorian Youth Mentoring Alliance have developed tools to help you plan and deliver activities for Youth Mentoring Week.
Visit www.youthmentoringvic.org.au and follow the links to access a Celebration Support Kit and invitation and certificate templates to help you celebrate the achievements of your mentors, young people and supporters.

Register and promote your Youth Mentoring Week event today.

Case Studies

Please find below a series of case studies that reflect some of the different models of mentoring being delivered and the outcomes and learnings from youth mentoring in action.

• The benefits of mentoring (Word 24 kb) from Lead On Ballarat.
• A young person’s experience of mentoring (Word 26 kb) from Mission Australia.
• Developing a partnership model for mentoring (Word 30 kb) from Brophy Youth & Family Services.
• Issues in establishing mentoring programs with CALD young people (Word 25 kb) from the Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues.
• Linking young people to vocational opportunities (Word 26 kb) from the Linking Young People to Employment and Training program.
• Mentors need to be well prepared to work with young (Word 25 kb) from Big Brothers Big Sisters, Melbourne.
• The importance of appropriate matching for successful mentoring relationships (Word 26 kb) from Gippsland East Mentoring Project.
• Getting young people involved in mentoring (Word 25 kb) from Standing Tall in School mentoring program.
• Mutual interests between mentor and mentee strengthen the mentoring relationship (Word 26 kb) from Berry Street.
• Mentoring can include a variety of engagement options depending on the needs of the mentee (Word 26 kb) from Good Shepherd, Melbourne.
• Mentoring experiences can endure and provide long term benefits for all (Word 26 kb) from Jobs and New Approach, Ballarat.

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