Youth Mentoring Program Models
| Youth Mentoring ‘Sites’ |
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| Community-based |
This involves a mentor being matched with a young person in a one-to-one relationship. The relationship is developed through regular face-to-face contact, weekly or fortnightly, where the young person and mentor engage in activities in the community. This may be having a coffee together, going to the movies or footy, doing a art-making class or any number of other activities. The contact in community-based mentoring is normally in the evening or on weekends. |
| School-based |
A mentor and young person are matched in a one-to-one relationship. Similar to community-based mentoring, relationships are developed through regular contact. This contact is made at school during class time, on school grounds, and is supervised by a teacher or worker. Often one period a week is set aside for mentoring. Activities undertaken in school-based mentoring vary, for example gardening, reading, building or cooking, or even just watching a DVD. |
| Youth Mentoring Modes of Delivery |
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One-to-one mentoring |
One-to-one mentoring is the most common form of delivery of youth mentoring programs. It involves the development of a relationship between one mentor and one young person. One-to-one mentoring relationships are generally more intensive in their support to young people than other delivery modes. |
Group Mentoring |
This involves group activities where one person mentors a number of young people. The group activities are implemented regularly in a series that enables relationships between the mentor and young people to develop organically. The nature of the relationship between the mentor and young people will vary depending on their individual connection. |
Peer Mentoring |
Young people mentoring other young people is called ‘Peer Mentoring’. It operates the same way as ‘one-to-one’ mentoring but the mentor is a young person as well. This model is common in schools where young people mentor young people one or two years below them. |
E-mentoring |
E-mentoring is a relatively new model of youth mentoring that relies on communications technology to connect young people with their mentor. |
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