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	Youth Mentoring Reform in Western Australia The Australian Youth Mentoring Network was commissioned by the Western Australian Department for Communities to facilitate consultation sessions with the WA youth mentoring sector in order to inform the development of a State Youth Mentoring Policy Framework. This report has two main purposes. The first is to provide a summary of feedback gathered from stakeholders during consultations held at 11 sites across Western Australia during the period March to June 2011. The second is to present a synopsis of potential content for inclusion in a Strategic Framework for Youth Mentoring Reforms. It is envisaged that the report will be used as a basis for considerations by WA’s mentoring community for developing the strategic policy framework to guide and enhance youth mentoring over forthcoming years. Click here to download the report (PDF, 677kb)

	Connecting for Careers: The iTrack Youth Mentoring Program iTrack is an online mentoring program focusing on the school to work transition. It aims to provide students with opportunities to develop appropriate relationships with supportive adults other than a teacher or parent, and to provide information to students about workplace, study and career opportunities. This report, by The Smith Family, tracks the progress and outcomes of two sets of iTrack students: the first with access to face-to-face meetings with their mentor, and the second undertaking a purely online relationship. The findings suggest that students who do not participate in face-to-face meetings with their mentors during the program do not appear to be disadvantaged by this in terms of their skill development gained through the program. Click here to download the document (PDF, 459 kb)

	Standing Tall: A School Based Mentoring Program - Report for Handbury Fellowship 2008 Written by Jeanette Pritchard Standing Tall is a school-based mentoring program which has been implemented at both Baimbridge and Camperdown Secondary Colleges in Barwon South West Region of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development of Victoria. This report looks at mentoring in the context of the current research on the well-being of young people in Australia, the link between well-being and educational outcomes and the current thinking regarding well-being by the Victorian Government. Click here to download the summary of the report (PDF, 753kb) Click here to download the full report (PDF, 5.23mb)

	Realising their Potential: A Survey of Young People in Youth Mentoring (October 2011) Produced by the Victorian Youth Mentoring Alliance This report is based on the findings of a survey of 153 young people aged 12 to 25 across a diverse range of 34 youth mentoring programs. The survey was intended to give a broad indication of the effects of youth mentoring. It was designed to seek out what changes occur in respect to: greater confidence and self esteem, school attendance and achievements, reduction in negative behaviour, the use of drugs & alcohol and awareness of pathways towards higher education and employment. Overall, the feedback indicates that young people have gained a number of benefits as a result of having a volunteer mentor in their lives. Click here to view the report

	Young People and Mentoring: towards a national strategy A report prepared for Big Brothers Big Sisters, Dusseldorp Skills Forum and The Smith Family by Robyn Hartley (2004) Click here to download the report (PDF, 643kb)

Role Models for Young People: What makes an effective role model program? A report to the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme in 2002 By Judith MacCallum and Susan Beltman Click here to download a copy of this report (PDF)

Mentoring in Schools by Members of the Community Written by Judith MacCallum and Susan Beltman Centre for Curriculum and Professional Development Murdoch University This report identifies models of good practice of mentoring in school settings and looks at issues associated with the implementation of mentoring programs in these settings and makes key recommendations for consideration by Australian schools and education systems. Click here to download the report (PDF, 449kb)

Evaluation of the Plan-It Youth Program - Final Report 2007 A report to the NSW Department of Education and Training evaluating the Plan-IT Youth mentoring program Click here to view the report

Other Journals and Articles

Beltman, S. & MacCallum, J. (2006) Mentoring and the development of resilience: An Australian perspective. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 8, 17-28

Koerner, C and Harris, J (2007) 'Inspired Learning: Creating engaged teaching and learning environments for university and school mentor programs', International Education Journal, 8(2), 354-364 Click here to download this paper (PDF, 52.9 kb)

Koerner, C, Tur, SU & Wilson, C (2009) ‘Bringing Indigenous Sovereignties into university- community partnerships: Unpacking racialisation to re-engage Indigenous Australian students in education’, in Barbara Baird & Damien Riggs (Eds) Transforming Bodies, Nations and Knowledges, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Ch 10, pp188-207 Please note a printing error on p.197 of the chapter. The mentor program model should have the Indigenous student in the centre of the triangle and the Indigenous community at the apex, not off to the side. Click here to download this chapter (PDF, 191kb)

Moodie, M. L. and Fisher, J (2009) 'Are Youth Mentoring Programs Good Value-for-money? An Evaluation of the Big Brothers, Big Sisters Melbourne Program', BMC Public Health www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9/41 Click here to download this paper (PDF, 226kb)