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What's NEW? |
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4 Double Passes to Green Day's Sydney Concert up for grabs!
 The AYMN has been given 4 double passes to the Green Day concert in Sydney for Saturday 12th December 7p.m. The tickets are for a mentor and mentee to enjoy the concert at Sydney's ACER Arena at Homebush. The mentee must be 15 yrs or over. The first four programs to email info@youthmentoring.org.au can receive 1 double pass.
DEEWR Announces Preferred Provider List for Youth Connections
New Tool to Help Mentors Discuss Binge Drinking
 As part of the Australian Government's "Don't Turn a Night Out into a Nightmare" national binge drinking campaign that encourages teenagers and young adults to think about the choices they make about drinking, a fun, user-friendly game has been launched that utilises cutting-edge digital technology to encourage young people to understand the repercussions of binge drinking.
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In The Loop |
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2009 was Bigger and Better!
 2009 saw the AYMN train another 110 new coordinators through NRGize, 385 people attended the forums, 40 people attended our 1st advanced training course and 165 mentors attended our Mentor Summits. PLUS 2009 was the first year that Youth Mentoring Week was held nation wide!
We also had over 70 new programs listed joining our database! 2009 saw us launching two reports :
Next year looks set to be even bigger with the launch of the National Youth Mentoring Conference.
In February we will also be launching our 2010 Training Calendar.
The new year will see more forums, mentor summits, advance training, a new refreshed NRGize Workshop, and more fact sheets for mentors and practitioners! So keep an eye on our website in 2010! |
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Funding Issues! |
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10 Fundraising Ideas for the End of the Year
Start the New Year off with extra funds! It's not too late to have an end of year fundraiser. 10 things you can do to raise funds are:
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Hold a New Year raffle.
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Print a calendar with work from your mentees and sell them to members of the community.
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Offer gift wrapping services for Christmas shoppers.
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Light up your home or office for Christmas and have a bucket collection for people viewing the lights.
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Sell handmade Christmas decorations and cards.
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Have a sausage sizzle.
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Have a food sale - sell traditional seasonal food such as fruit cakes, gingerbread families and sufganiot.
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Hold a Christmas performance or play.
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Hold a carols by candelight in your local park or make it mobile by singing around the neighbourhood.
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Have a holiday movie night.
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Mentoring Programs |
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New Mentoring Programs Listed on the Youth Mentoring National Database!
Our database continues to grow with fifteen new fantastic youth mentoring programs listing on our website during November 2009!
We would like to welcome the following programs to the National Database:
Click on their names above to learn more about these programs.
Add a Mentoring Program
If you know of a program in this field that is not listed above please feel free to pass on this newsletter to them and encourage them to register their program.
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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 Thank you to everyone who participated in all our events held during 2009! All our forums, summits and training workshops were a great success! We would also like to especially thank the programs and organisations who co-hosted an event with us. Keep an eye on our website for more exciting events in 2010 including more Youth Mentoring Forums, Summits and Workshops.
Also keep an eye on our website for further details on Youth Mentoring Week 2010 and the Australian Youth Mentoring Conference 2010!
Other Conferences and events
'New Horizons': NESA Working Communities International Congress
Organised by the National Employment Services Association and held in Melbourne on 24-26 March 2010
National Youth Week 2010
National Youth Week will be held on 10-18 April 2010
For Our Children: Local Strengths, National Challenges: SNAICC National Conference 2010
Organised by the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care and held in Alice Springs from 27-29 July 2010
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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Christmas/New Year Shutdown
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 The Australian Youth Mentoring Network office will be closed between 24 December 2009 and 5 January 2010. 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 6 January 2010.
In the meantime, we wish you a safe and happy holiday season! |
