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Welcome to 2014
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Dear AYMN members and friends,
A belated happy New Year to you all. I hope you celebrated the start of 2014 in good spirits with family and friends. Now that we're a month into the New Year, it's good to look ahead and think about what this year may bring us. But first, a quick look back.
The year 2013 was quite a year for all of us at AYMN. We've been through many developments, in sometimes less than favourable financial circumstances, but at the end of it we also achieved a huge amount. Read more
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State of Play
| Every two years the Australian Youth Mentoring Network conducts the State of Play of Mentoring Survey to provide a snapshot of the Australian youth mentoring sector. The information we gather here helps us to communicate with government on the needs of the sector and determine priorities for services for the coming two years.
The following paper provides a brief overview and comment about the state of play of youth mentoring programs that were registered with the Australian Youth Mentoring Network as of November 2013.
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Australian Youth Mentoring Conference
| The 2014 Australian Youth Mentoring Conference, which will take place 30 June - 1 July in Fremantle, WA. We are pleased to confirm Michael Karcher, co-editor of the Youth Mentoring Handbook, Professor Colleen Hayward, and Associate Professor Judy MacCallum as keynote speakers. Conference registration is now open, as is the call abstracts so if you have something you'd like to share with the mentoring community please
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Mentoring Forums
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As part of the Australian Youth Mentoring Network's commitment to building a national mentoring community we host a series of networking forums which are designed to provide both a professional development opportunity for practitioners and an opportunity for organisations to network and form the basis of an ongoing local network. The AYMN intends to host at least one forum in each state each year. If you're interested in co-hosting a networking forum with us in 2014, you can find out more here.
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Research
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When young people are mentored, they experience significant positive life outcomes related to academics, community involvement and leadership, and career development, according to a new report released this week. The Mentoring Effect: Young People's Perspectives on the Outcomes and Availability of Mentoring , a survey of young people on the topic of mentoring, examines the mentoring effect on youth, their aspirations and achievements and the community around them. Read more
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