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Attention all foodies!
 Do you love to dine out? Are you looking for an activity mentors and mentees can do together? Whether you eat at fancy restaurants or your nearest take away store, or love to go bowling or the cinemas, you will love the 2009/2010 Entertainment™ Book!
The Youth Mentoring Network will be selling 2009/2010 Entertainment™ Books to help us raise funds. We will be selling books for each state and territory. Keep an eye on our website on how to purchase the books.
The Entertainment™ Book was first introduced in 1994 and is a restaurant and activity guide that provides special 25 to 50% off and 2-for-1 offers from many of the best restaurants, hotels and attractions throughout Australia.
Split the cost of the book with a friend and share the coupons or buy one each and when you dine out together as group your dicounts can multiply!
Coming Soon! You can purchase the book online from YMN website.
Thank you to everyone at the Noosa Mentor Summit
Thank you to everyone who attended the Noosa Mentor Summit! The Summit was held on Saturday, 21 March 2009 with about 40 participants who thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We would like to especially thank Andrew Fuller, our speaker, who was highly informative and entertaining.
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Mentoring Stories |
Youth Mentoring "Your Story" Competition
 In the true spirit of mentoring, the Youth Mentoring Network is celebrating successful mentoring pairs with the Youth Mentoring 'Your Story' competition.
Mentors and Mentees from all over Australia are invited to send in their mentoring story and photos . You don't have to be a professional writer or photographer. You just need to have lots of enthusiasm and a great mentoring spirit!
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New Factsheet |
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. Factsheet 6 is available on our website!
Factsheet 6 - Dealing with Bullying
This fact sheet will define bullying in its various forms, including cyber-bullying. It will also assist mentors in supporting students and provides information about further resources.
Don't forget, Factsheets 1 to 5 can also be downloaded on our website.
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Funding Issues! |
 Are you running out of funding? Do you need to boost to the funds you currently have? Listed below are current funding opportunities which exist that may assist youth mentoring programs or mentees. Click on the links for more information about each grant.
Keep an eye on the Funding page on our website for monthly funding updates. We will be listing new grants and other funding opportunities for youth mentoring programs each month. |
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New Programs |
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New Programs Listed on the Youth Mentoring National Database!
Our database continues to grow with seven new wonderful youth mentoring programs listing on our website during March 2009!
We would like to welcome the following programs to the National Database:
Click on their names above to learn more about these programs.
Remember, there is no cost involved in the program registration. By registering your program details on our online database, you will also be adding your voice to the growing number of youth mentoring programs demanding that funding bodies take a more serious look at mentoring. If we all work together, we can achieve a more knowledgeable mentoring environment and provide better support for your program, which will lead to more support and guidance for the youth of Australia.
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Events
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Youth Mentoring Forum Series
NSW Regional Forum - 30 April 2009
The Youth Mentoring Network, in partnership with the Hunter Youth Mentor Collaborative, will be holding the NSW Regional Forum in Newcastle on Thursday, 30th April 2009. The topic for this forum is "Mentoring - Working with Volunteers: Caring for youth & strategies for protecting the image of mentoring".
Keep an eye on our website for further details of the following upcoming forums:
June 18 - Melbourne
August 25 - Adelaide
September 25 - Vic Regional - Bendigo
December - Bunbury WA If you missed one of our forums or would like to access information used in the presentations, click here to visit our Past Forums page to download PowerPoint presentations or forum notes.
Forum Series 2009 - Co-hosts Needed
The Youth Mentoring Network is still looking for co-hosts for our NSW Metro forum. If you are interested in being a partner organisation for a forum, download a MOU to see what is involved in the process or email info@youthmentoring.org.au.
Other Conferences and events
School Based Mentoring: A forum to explore building sustainable programs in schools
Connecting Up 2009 - The Online Future of Nonprofits - Are We There Yet?
Organised by Connecting Up Australia and held in Sydney on 11-12 May 2009
2009 Symposium - Working Together: Advancing Child Protection In The Workplace
Organised by the NSW Ombudsman Child Protection Division and held in Sydney on 25 - 26 May 2009
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. |
