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Youth Mentoring Network Factsheets for Mentors
The Youth Mentoring Network will be producing a series of factsheets to help mentors deal with issues which may come up when speaking with their mentees. The second factsheet is now available on our website!
Factsheet 2 - Building Relationships, contains information and ideas to encourage a meaningful and fulfilling relationships.
Factsheet 1 - Adolescent Issues has also been updated and is also available to be downloaded.
Take a look at the factsheets today!
Become a Youth Mentor Volunteer!
 To celebrate Victorian Youth Mentoring Week, we have added a new page to our website! This page lists current volunteering opportunities in youth mentoring programs.
If you have you thought about becoming a youth mentor or want to help a young person fulfil his or her potential and discover their strengths, now is the time to become a volunteer youth mentor!
If you are a mentoring program and would like to list your volunteering opportunities on the website, please follow the link below.
Victorian Youth Mentoring Week
Victorian Youth Mentoring Week was held from Monday, 30 June 2008 to Sunday, 6 July 2008. The highlight of the week was the Volunteer Mentor Summit which was held on Saturday, 5 July 2008. The Summit gathered selected mentors to represent regions across Victoria to celebrate their contribution, share highlights and challenges and develop guidelines for better mentor support.
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OSAT Competition |
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Thank you for completing OSAT!
The OSAT competition is now closed. Thank you to all those who completed OSAT during May and June.
We have drawn the winners of our OSAT competition and would like to congratulate the winners, Tracy Dunn and Sharon Terry.
Tracy Dunn is from the Break Through Youth Employment Mentoring Program. This mentoring program links disadvantaged young people with employment mentors who are currently employed in the local community.
Sharon Terry from Vehicle to Success which is a mentoring program for young disadvantaged people who are unemployed. It aims to provide an effective role model for each participant to assist them to identify their dreams and goals and to plan for a positive pathway into employment.
Congratulations again to Tracy and Sharon!
Even though the OSAT competition has now closed, OSAT is always open.
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Research |
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Training for Mentor Program Coordinators Survey
 The Training for Mentor Program Coordinators survey and competition is now closed.
The YMN wants to thank all the program coordinators who completed the survey. Their responses were invaluable in providing us with information to provide the best way to further their professional development.
Look out for the survey results on the Youth Mentoring Network website soon! The winner of the survey competition will also be announced in next month's newsletter.
National Mentoring Centre Publications
The National Mentoring Centre has recently updated and revised several of their key publications. These publications offer practitioners a research-based model for designing and implementing successful youth mentoring programs. The Centre has updated the following publications:
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Events
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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:
Victoria University Conference Centre
Level 12, 300 Flinders Street
Melbourne, Victoria
Online registration details is now available on the YMN website!
Youth Mentoring Forum Series
Upcoming Forum Dates for Diary
August 27th - Gippsland
September 12th - Noosa November 13th - 14th -Bunbury
Co-Hosts Still Needed
Sydney September 17th
Other Conferences and events
NDARC Annual Symposium 2008
Organised by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and held in Sydney on 31 July - 1 August 2008
Touching the Future: Building Skills for Life, Work and Citizenship
Organised by the Australian Council for Educational Research and held in Brisbane on 10-12 August 2008
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
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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