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Online Self-Assessment Tool
With the year quickly rounding out, now is the time to use the online self assessment tool (OSAT). OSAT has been designed to assist with identifying opportunities for growth and development within your program.
OSAT allows program staff to assess how well they are achieving each benchmark standard on a 0 - 5 rating. Programs are then able to identify areas of strength and weakness. If an area of weakness is identified programs, will be able to access specific resources to assist with further developing this area to ensure an overall high quality program.
Programs can complete the assessment at 1 point in time and compare their results in 6 or 12 months time. They can also anonymously compare their results against all other programs that have completed the tool.
Click here to learn more about OSAT and to assess your mentoring program.
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Updating Your Program Profile |
Its time to update your program details! To ensure that the information we provide to potential volunteers, teachers, parents and young people remains accurate we are asking all users to log on and ensure the contact details and program information are still correct. If your information is not updated by the 20th of December we will assume you no longer would like your program to be listed and will remove it from the website.
To update your details, simply enter your user name and password under the members' login section and you be taken to your program details. Please note that when you update your information, you will temporarily be taken off our website. Don't worry! Your program will be back online within 24 hours.
If you've forgotten your username and password email info@youthmentoring.org.au with your name and program details and we will provide you with further information.
If you do not have any changes to your program profile, please email info@youthmentoring.org.au so you won't be deleted from the website!
Click here to start updating your program details
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New Research: E-mentoring |
 This report by The Smith Family on their e-mentoring program, tracks the progress and outcomes of two sets of iTrack students. The first with access to face-to-face meetings with their mentor, and the second undertaking a purely online relationship. The findings suggest that students who do not participate in face-to-face meetings with their mentors during the program do not appear to be disadvantaged by this in terms of their skill development gained through the program.
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Mentor/Mentee of the Month |
 This month's mentor and mentee of the month is Lise and Ashlea! Lise and Ashlea are participants of the Plan-IT Youth program in the Riverina region in New South Wales. They have been highlighted this month to celebrate the success of Ashlea's speech where she highlighted how "lucky" she and her fellow students were to be matched with "kind and caring mentors".
Congratulations to Ashlea and Lise!
Click here to read their story.
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Events
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Youth Mentoring Forum Series
The last Youth Mentoring Network forum for the year was held in Campbelltown, NSW. If you missed the forum and would like to view the presentation notes, these can now be found on our website. The presentations at this forum included a presentation on the new National Youth Mentoring Benchmarks and OSAT.
Click here to view the forum presentations
Other Conferences and events
Young People, Crime and Community Safety: Engagement and Early Intervention
Melbourne, organised by the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Victorian Safe Communities Network
25 - 26 Feb 2008
Click here for more information about these conferences
Promoting an event or meeting?
Holding a mentoring event or community meeting? Want to promote it to others beyond your normal networks? If you have an event or meeting that would interest youth mentoring practitioners, funding groups or mentors themselves, then you can add these events to the E-newsletter and YMN website. Simply send an email to info@youthmentoring.org.au containing all the event details by the last Friday of the month and we will be happy to help with your promotion.
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Christmas/New Year Shutdown |
The Youth Mentoring Network office will be closed between 20 December 2007 and 1 January 2008. If you send us an email, make a web enquiry or leave a telephone message during this period, and you don't hear from us, please be patient. We will respond to your messages when we come back on 2 January 2008.
In the meantime, we wish you a safe and happy holiday season! |
