Virtual Mentoring, Research, and Collaboration
Over the next few weeks, the Canadian Mentoring Partnership will be hosting a series of webinars exploring these big questions and inviting you to share your own best practices, and help provide to build capacity within the leaders across our country:
March 25th 2020 1:00 PM EST Building a Mentoring Movement Across Canada. In lieu of the Symposium, this will be a very high-level webinar into who we are, our collective impact strategy, our workplan, and ways for you to engage. (RSVP HERE)
April 8th 2020 1:00 PM EST Virtual Mentoring: Next, we will be hosting a special webinar on the topic of virtual mentoring. We are in high-level conversations with platforms and providers and we want to hear from you about your experiences, thoughts, hopes, and fears about alternative forms of mentoring. What are short, medium, and long-term adaptations we can use? The future is now. The common denominator in all of our work is relationships. We are about supporting caring relationships in person, online, over text, or other formats yet unexplored). (RSVP HERE)
April 22nd 2020 1:00 PM EST Growing the Canadian evidence base for quality mentoring is front of mind for us and our third webinar will be about research. This webinar will highlight some of our preliminary findings about young Canadians' access to mentors and experiences of mentoring. We will also share details about our ongoing research projects focused on youth, mentoring service providers, and mentors. (RSVP HERE)
May 6th 2020 1:00 PM EST Designing a national collaborative to lead the mentoring movement in Canada. The goal for this session will be to gain input into the design of the CMP’s leadership table and communities of practice. Together we will explore population-level outcome goals, potential theory of change, discuss who is already around the table, who do we need to engage and explore what could governance look like. (RSVP HERE)
While we had to postpone our next two Power of Mentoring events scheduled for Toronto and Ottawa, we were thrilled to work to bring together businesses and young people for a pilot in Edmonton, Alberta. It was an evening of energy and great learning, and once our communities are safe to host gatherings again, we look forward to scaling powerofmentoring.ca events across Canada. Please take a moment to watch this video and be inspired.
We look forward to engaging with you, and please reach out to myself or one of our team. Please keep sharing resources with us that we can amplify over our social media such as these from the Search Institute on supporting caring relationships during COVID19.
Engage with your mentoring community!
The National Mentoring Symposium is a Canada-wide conference that strives to advance the unique contributions of mentoring to the well-being of children and youth, volunteer mentors and communities. Key highlights of the 2016 Symposium include innovative partnerships, promising practices, unique programs, and leading research.
NMS 2016 Presentations and Research
YES Project: Engaging Mentors as Natural Supports for Youth Transitioning From Care
November 30, 2016Group Mentoring for Canadian Newcomer Youth: Preliminary Evaluations of the Conversation Club Intervention
November 30, 2016Mentoring Youth in Conflict with the Law
November 30, 2016Mentorship and Corporate Organizations: A Case Study of a Program with Discussion
November 30, 2016Mentoring Children and Youth in Care: An Alberta Perspective
November 30, 2016This Changes (Almost) Everything: Mentor, Youth, Parent & Staff Perspectives on Youth Initiated Mentoring
November 30, 2016The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative: Where Science Meets Real Life to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families
November 30, 2016Transformative Mentoring for Youth Facing Barriers to Success: Best Practices
November 30, 2016NMS 2016 Photos
NMS 2016 Video
A Big Thank You To Our Sponsors
National Mentoring Symposium 2013
Photos from the 2013 National Mentoring Symposium
Keynote Videos from the National Mentoring Symposium 2013
November 5 - 7, 2013
Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
It's About Inspiring Lives
The Alberta Mentoring Partnership (AMP) was proud to be working together with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada (BBBSC) to co-host the first national conference on mentoring. This symposium celebrated 100 years of mentoring across Canada by showcasing innovative mentoring partnerships, practices, programs and research and by setting the stage for mentoring in the future. The event advanced the unique contributions of mentoring to the well-being of children and youth, volunteer mentors and communities across Canada by highlighting innovative partnerships, promising practices or programs and the state of the research.

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Engage with your mentoring community!
The National Mentoring Symposium is a Canada-wide conference that strives to advance the unique contributions of mentoring to the well-being of children and youth, volunteer mentors and communities. Key highlights of the 2016 Symposium include innovative partnerships, promising practices, unique programs, and leading research.