Volunteer Mentor

The Central YMCA

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Advice, Information & Support,Befriending, Buddying & Mentoring

You don’t need any formal qualifications to be a mentor. You will need to have complete a PVG Scheme Record/DBS check that will be arranged for you by your Project Coordinator. What’s really important is that you’re a good listener and we encourage applications from people with lived experience of how race, gender, ability, poverty, mental health, sexuality etc can interact and impact upon the lives of girls and young women. Our mentors are as diverse as the young people we work with and we welcome opportunities to celebrate our similarities and differences. You will be able to reflect on times where you have faced challenges in life, with which you gained essential learning and understanding. By supporting your mentee to identify small, achievable goals you will help them experience the process of persevering, achieving and celebrating and this builds their resilience and sense of worth well beyond the mentoring relationship. Mentors will need to be able to show empathy to a young person and see things from the perspective of the young person; it’s also important to help them develop empathy for others.

You will be offered mandatory and optional personal and professional development opportunities from our core mentor training to local and national wellbeing events (ranging from online mindfulness, dance classes and action planning sessions to in-person mentor pizza nights, sports activities and supervision). In order to support young people, we believe our mentors need to feel valued, supported and heard, there are various points where we will encourage your feedback to ensure our service is the very best.

You must be able to commit to one and a half to two hours per week for the first 6 months, after 6 months it then goes down to once fortnightly. At 9 months every three to 4 weeks completion at 12 months.

Further location details may be provided below.

Allison Bishop

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