Crime Prevention Ottawa: Speaker Series Invitation ‘Best Practices in Youth Mentoring’

CPO Speaker Series Invitation:

“Best Practices in Youth Mentoring” 

Are you a service provider who works with youth?

Do you want to enhance your work and your results through better mentorship programming?

Find out how at our upcoming Speaker Series event!

Our panelists will examine:

• Approaches to mentoring, including formal and informal 
• Different contexts in which mentoring programs operate (school, workplace, community setting, faith-based organizations, etc.)
• Ongoing supervision and support for mentees
• Benefits of culturally competent mentoring programs
• How to evaluate mentoring

Presenters include:

• Joëlle Lewis, Director of Government and External Relations Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada
• Dr. Melanie Bania, Director of Evaluation, YOUCAN
• Michael Justinich, Project Management Coordinator, Education and Youth Transitions, Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa
• Yacqub Jibril, Somali-Canadian Youth Mentoring Program
• Candace Anderson, Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa

Chair:

Dr. Robert Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Senior Researcher, Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services, University of Ottawa

When: 
Thursday, September 25^th, 2014 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Coffee at 10 am, program at 10:30 am

Where:
City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West
Andrew Haydon Hall (Council Chambers)

Questions will be encouraged in both official languages.

To R.S.V.P.:

Contact Crime Prevention Ottawa at cpo@ottawa.ca or 613-580-2424 ext. 22454. Space is limited.

Read our research – Effective Youth Mentoring: Best Practices

To learn more about best practices in youth mentoring, download our recently released research which targets professionals who support young people.

Author Johny-Angel Butera explores:

• How to build effective mentorship programs and relationships
• Recruitment and screening
• Training mentors
• Ongoing supervision and support
• and much more

The paper is available on our website at crimepreventionottawa.ca.