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E-mentoring: Key Topic Overview
This e-mentoring key topic overview contains some background information on e-mentoring, including its benefits and challenges, an overview of the current research in the field, and some principles and practices and guiding questions for e-mentoring programs.
progress report
Building a Mentoring Movement in Canada: Progress Report March 2021
As a backbone initiative, Mentor Canada plays a coordinating role in linking researchers, service providers, service recipients, funders and volunteers to achieve real collective impact. Learn more about what we have accomplished since June 2020.
Read: Building a Mentoring Movement in Canada: Progress Report March 2021
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Amplifying Mentoring Across Canada
Discover what our research has said on why mentoring matters and learn more on our COVID-19 response and recovery.
youth mentoring recommendations
formal mentoring
informal mentoring
positive mentoring experiences
negative mentoring experiences
2021 - #CanadaWeWant Conference Report
This report presents the findings of the Building a Mentoring Movement in Canada theme team from the 2021 #CanadaWeWant Virtual Youth Conference held in March, 2021. This conference theme team focused on exploring mentorship and, specifically, looking at what mentorship means to youth across Canada. The facilitation team used the SCC’s Young Decision Makers (YDM) process to study and discuss mentorship. During these discussions, the team described the difference between formal and informal mentorship, positive and negative mentorship experiences, skills and characteristics of a mentor, and elements that they believe should be taken into consideration in a national mentoring movement.
Factsheets
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Fact Sheet: Amplfying Mentoring Across Canada
Discover what our research has said on why mentoring matters and learn more on our COVID-19 response and recovery.
Articles
BIPOC resources
January 2021: #MentoringMonth Calls for More Canadians to Step Up as Mentors.
In our 1st article featured in Windspeaker, we talk about how we are looking at building awareness with organizations, agencies, schools and stakeholders to promote and support mentoring for Indigenous children and youth.
Read: January 2021: #MentoringMonth calls more Canadians to step up as mentors
BIPOC resources
Mentoring has Various Forms and Countless Benefits for Both Mentees and Mentors
In our 2nd article featured in Windspeaker, we explain the difference between informal and formal mentoring, and how we can help you start your journey as a mentor.
Read: Mentoring has various forms and countless benefits for both mentees and mentors
BIPOC Resources
Edmonton-based Coyote Pride Program Seeking Additional Mentors
In our 3rd article published in Windspeaker, we talk about the urgent need for new mentors to assist the many children who are feeling the impacts of the pandemic, in particular the Coyote Pride Mentoring Program, an Indigenous Mentoring program seeking 20 new mentors for online mentoring programming.
Read: Edmonton-based Coyote Pride Program Seeking Additional Mentors
BIPOC Resources
Mentoring comes in Various Forms Providing Numerous Benefits
In our 4th article published in Windspeaker, Mentor Canada provides an overview of it's Power of Mentoring events, and explains how we can expand these events to Indigenous organizations, Elder, Knowledge Keepers and private corporations as partners to grow the Indigenous Mentoring Movement.
Read: Mentoring comes in Various Forms Providing Numerous Benefits
Essays
digital divide
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barriers to employment
barriers to education
digital skills training
Building the Bridge to Youth Success: Overcoming the Digital Divide
In May 2020, Mentor Canada partnered with seven othert youth-focused organizations to identify the multi-facets of the digital divide that Canadian youth are currently facing, and how these barries are affecting their ability to stay engaged in education, employment, and their community. The importance of mentoring, the need for improved access to digital skills training and employment, and ensuring youth have a voice in designing solutions to bridge the digital divide, are consistent themes throughout each of the five essays.
Read: Building the Bridge to Youth Success: Overcoming the Digital Divide
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