Media Centre

Media releases

2011

Youth Mentoring is Helping our Young Succeed - Study Finds (November 4, 2011)
Young people in youth mentoring programs are less likely to use drugs and alcohol, more likely to go to school and have clearer ideas about their futures, a new VYMA study has found.

Mentor of the Year - A Celebaration of Selflessness (October 24, 2011)
“Jeanne also helped me get through my homelessness.She enabled me to keep some routine in the chaos, this helped me keep going forward." ... mentee Andie Dunn.

Youth Mentoring Week - A Celebration of Success (October 21, 2011)
“Youth mentoring is something we should try to foster and develop. It can have positive impacts on troubled young lives".... Rev. Tim Costello

Youth Mentoring - Helping Build Communities (October,  2011)
“We now have almost 7000 young people being mentored in Victoria – this figure has tripled since 2005 and research tells us the mentoring programs can have a significant positive impact on the lives of a huge range of people.” ...VYMA EO Sarah Johnson

Child Protection Week - Helping troubled youth (August 6, 2011)
Properly managed youth mentoring programs can be important tools in helping support vulnerable young people leaving state care or in child protection.

Youth Mentors Not Prison Beds (June 15, 2011)
"We know that many Victorian prisoners have not completed secondary school, were unemployed when imprisoned and are likely to struggle with all kinds of social disadvantage.” ... VYMA EO Sarah Johnson. 

Archived Media Releases

Young people and their mentors come together to celebrate Youth Mentoring Week (October 14, 2009)

Chief Commissioner Simon Overland gets behind youth mentoring (October 29, 2009)

 

Media contacts

Journalists wanting to find out more about the Victorian Youth Mentoring Alliance should contact:

Sarah Johnson

Executive Officer

M: 0423 929 601
E: s.johnson@youthmentoringvic.org.au

 

IN THE MEDIA

2012

'Mentors give youngsters a better chance'  - on Australia Day this article encouraged more people to become mentors. Herald Sun, January 26.

2011

‘A mentoring match hits the road’ – Radio National interview with Bendigo L2P match Rose Wani and Ian Wallis. ABC Radio National, November 10. 

‘Rose takes the wheel, Ian takes the credit’ - a story on a successful L2P mentoring match and new VYMA research about the success of mentoring programs in achieving positive outcomes for young people. Herald Sun, November 3.

‘Mentor of the Year Jeanne Winter helped teen through tough time’ - a report on the recipient of the Mentor of the Year award. Herald Sun, October 26.

‘Cutting cash for youth mentors will cost us millions in the end’ - Susie O’Brien’s column in the Herald Sun on cuts to funding for youth mentoring programs, October 21. 

‘Youth get blues as training funding scrapped’ – a story about the imminent demise of the FReeZACentral program. The Age, September 19. 

‘Cash runs out to help vulnerable children’ – a report on how funding for at least 30 mentoring programs will run out at the end of the year. Herald Sun, September 17.

2009

'Hundreds of children to lose their mentor's - Vulnerable children will be forced to separate from their ''big brothers'' when 15 youth mentoring programs close at the end of the year. The Sunday Age, November 1.