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Latest Research on Youth Mentoring!
 Read the latest research by Jean Rhodes! The article, 'Improving Youth Mentoring Interventions Through Reseach-Based Practice' provides a summary of the resarch conducted on mentoring programs. It examines the findings of reviews, evlauations and meta analyses and provides a clear and concise summary of the evaluation litertature.
New Training Manual for Recruiting Mentors!
Volunteering Australia has released a fantastic new resource to assist volunteer organisations in engaging and supporting volunteers from diverse backgrounds. The guide is called Training Manual - Recruiting and Supporting Volunteers from Diverse Cultural and Language Backgrounds.
Victorian Youth Mentoring Week
Victorian Youth Mentoring Week will be held from Monday, 30th June 2008 to Sunday, 6th July 2008. It is a great opportunity to celebrate and raise the profile of youth mentoring across Victoria. That means recognising the benefits it brings to young people and celebrating the contribution made by the volunteer mentors, staff and supporters who make youth mentoring programs a success.
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In the Loop |
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Boxes, events and surveys!
What a busy time here in the new YMN office! We have unpacked all the boxes and have our emails back up and running. Now we are back at work organising our next NRGize workshop and planning a new training package for those practitioners who have worked in the field for a number of years. As always your views and opinions are essential to the development of our services so please keep an eye out for our new survey which will be asking you to provide details of your professional development needs.
We are also working closely with the University of Western Sydney completing a piece of research on the partnerships mentoring programs form with other organisations in the community. We are almost finished testing the survey and will be sending that one out shortly as well. The results from both pieces of research will be made available on our website. |
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OSAT Competition |
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Hurry!! Last days!
Just a reminder that we are currently running a competition where you will go into a draw to win one of two $50 gift vouchers from your choice of either Myer or David Jones. All you need to do is to login and complete OSAT by 30 June 2008. Winners will be notified in July and will also be announced in the July 2008 newsletter. OSAT allows program staff to assess how well they are achieving each benchmark standard via a ratings system. 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 development in 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 start OSAT
If you have misplaced your username and password, please email use at info@youthmentoring.org.au and we will email you your login details. Hurry! You must complete OSAT by 30 June 2008.
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YMN Research |
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Training for Mentor Program Coordinators
 The YMN wants to Develop your mentoring program! We will be conducting research to assess the training needs of Mentoring Program Coordinators to find out the best way to further their professional development!
Look out for a new survey from The Youth Mentoring Network which will be on our website later this week!
In the meantime, if you have any queries or recommendations, please email Sophie Coles at
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Mentoring Stories |
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Cody and Paul
 Cody and Paul are from the Plan-It Youth Mentoring Program, run by the NSW Department of Education and Training. These two were well-matched from the outset. They found a great deal of common ground with their sporting interests but this has evolved into a positive outlook on life and its uncertainties. It's been great to watch them joke about trivial matters but then concentrate on the more serious matters with common ambition.
Cody said that "I have overcome a lot of difficulties in my life... Paul is funny... He has become a good friend."
Paul says he has a lot of admiration for Cody. "I think he can go a long way... He has a good control of English and expresses himself well..."
Click here to view their story
Share your Good News Stories!
Do you have a great story about mentoring? Do you know of a mentoring pair who has worked fabulously together?
Click here to submit your mentoring story.
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Events
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Youth Mentoring Forum Series
Tasmanian Forum
 The Youth Mentoring Network, in partnership with Mission Australia, will be holding the Tasmanian Mentoring Forum. The topic for this forum will be The Power of Mentoring in Your Community.
Click here for more information
Upcoming Forum Dates for Diary
August 27th - Gippsland
September 12th - Noosa November 13th - 14th -Bunbury
Co-Hosts Still Needed
Sydney September 17th
NRGize - Dates for you Diary 19th - 21st August 2008
The dates for NRGize have now been confirmed and will be held from Tuesday 19th August to Thursday 21st August 2008. This year's NRGize Workshop will be held in Melbourne. Registration will open at the end of June! Stay tuned for further details!
Other Conferences and events
Communities in Control Conference 2008 - The Community Challenge: Building political, environmental, social & economic pathways towards true social inclusion
Organised by Our Community and held in Melbourne on 16-17 June 2008
Click here for more details
ACWA Conference 2008 - Strong, Safe & Sustainable: Responding to children, young people and families in a civil society
Organised by the Association of Children's Welfare Agencies and held in Sydney on 18 - 20 August 2008
Early bird registrations close 30th of June 2008
Click here for more details
Promoting an event or meeting?
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 and we will be happy to help with your promotion.
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