In his article “Preventing Abuse in a Mentoring Program: What Went Wrong In Pennsylvania” Rey Carr underlines the importance of screening and on-going monitoring of mentors to protect young people and the integrity of our mentoring programs. With Rey’s permission, we reprint a portion of his
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When a group of high-school friends post a rumour about a rival it sparks a chain reaction that leaves no one untouched. Cyberbullying, sexting, filmed fights and police action ensue — will these friends avoid being tagged forever? This is the blurb for a new video developed by the Australian
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Why should we care about cultural issues in youth mentoring?  Dr Bernadette Sanchez is associate professor of psychology at DePaul University Illinois, USA. She was international guest speaker at this year's New Zealand Youth Mentoring Conference and she spoke to mentoring practitioners at the
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    How is childhood self-control related to health and wellbeing later in life? This month, Professor Martin Westwell, Director of the Flinders Centre for Science Education in the 21st Century, writes about the benefits of supporting young people to develop self-control and the role that a caring
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We know that lack-lustre and poorly managed mentoring relationships run the risk of causing more harm than good to the young people we are trying to help. But have you ever considered that poor mentoring matches may also risk the reputation of our sector? When we create relationships just to reach
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There is a long held view in the youth mentoring sector that the longer the mentoring match lasts, the better the outcomes of the relationship. So when Jean Rhodes, a leading mentoring researcher took on this question recently, her findings were quite interesting. Jean Rhodes, together with Jean
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Every 2nd year the AYMN conducts a survey of the sector to see how youth mentoring programs are faring. The survey started in 2007 where it was identified that a third of programs that completed the survey would lose their funding on the 31st of December 2007. You might assume that one source of funding
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The AYMN Conference was a fantastic opportunity to bring the mentoring sector together to learn about how we can work more effectively with each other, debate the future direction of the sector and help shape youth development policy. But it doesn’t need to stop once we leave the conference hall. There
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