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SUMMARY:January Community Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Grab your coffee or tea\, and join your mentoring program peers and MENTOR Virginia on Wednesday\, January 10th from 9:00 – 10:00 am for Community Coffee Hour. We’ll be having a discussion on ways mentoring programs can partner with local law enforcement. \nMENTOR Virginia will virtually host Community Coffee Hour every 2nd Wednesday of the month with mentoring program staff to create space for peer-to-peer learning and resource sharing\, and to address issues you and your organization might be facing during the pandemic and beyond. We hope to see you at an upcoming Community Coffee Hour! \nRegister to attend! \nMeet Our Guest Speakers: \nMore info to come!
URL:https://mentorva.org/event/january-community-coffee-hour/
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SUMMARY:January Public New Mentor Training
DESCRIPTION:Register HERE\nAre you considering becoming a mentor or getting ready to be a mentor? Take the first step and attend one of MENTOR Virginia’s virtual New Mentor Trainings. Let our trainers prepare you to be the most effective mentor possible. By attending our virtual training\, you will learn what to expect from a mentor-mentee relationship and proven strategies for success. At this session\, you will be introduced to: \n\nThe value of mentoring\nBoundaries of a mentoring relationship\nThe importance of a positive youth development approach\nStages of a mentoring relationship\, communication techniques\, and problem-solving strategies\nMentor/Mentee Activities\n\nMENTOR Virginia creates a lively atmosphere of learning and engages participants in interactive activities. Our goal is to have a minimum of 8 participants at each training session\, so consider bringing a friend\, colleague\, or sharing this training event with others interested in becoming a mentor. \n\n\n\nRegister to attend!
URL:https://mentorva.org/event/january-public-new-mentor-training/
CATEGORIES:New Mentor Training
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SUMMARY:Connect | Focus | Grow - Region 7
DESCRIPTION:The Connect | Focus | Grow training was developed as part of the National Mentoring Project\, a pilot project  managed by MENTOR in partnership with the America’s Promise Alliance / Center for Promise and with support from the Schultz Family Foundation. The National Mentoring Project aims to expand the web of quality relationship supports and social capital that younger employees/mentees/interns need to develop the skills necessary to successfully navigate the workplace including securing and sustaining employment. \nUnderlying this training is MENTOR’s guiding vision\, which is that all younger employees\, mentees\, and interns have access to a web of support from  caring adults and can form empowering relationships that: \n\nPromote the pursuit of the younger employees/mentees/intern’s passions\, skills and interests\nEnable younger employees/mentees/interns access to and exploration of spaces where these can be pursued\nHelp younger employees/mentees/interns overcome personal and/or institutional obstacles\n\nThis vision is underpinned by the approach MENTOR uses to help adults and younger employees form relationships\, which is grounded in positive development and youth-centrism. This approach: \n\nRecognizes that young people are assets and experts about themselves and their communities\nSupports young people in identifying and building strengths\nBrings young people and adults together to work as equal partners as appropriate\nBuilds young people’s connections to their own identity\, culture and community helping them to see  their own social capital and supporting the extension of social capital through mentoring\nEngages young people as leaders on issues that matter to them\n\nDate: 12/13/2023 \nTime: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. \nLocation: Northern Virginia Community College’s Brault Building Room 321 located at 4001 Wakefield Chapel Road\, Annandale\, Virginia\, 22203 (In-person training)\n \nRegister to attend! \nMeet Your Facilitator: \n\nTamice Spencer-Helms is a published author\, speaker\, and trainer based in Richmond\, Virginia. graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006. She has since been in the non-profit sector\, serving thousands of young adults and college students. In addition to her Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and Copywriting\, Tamice has a Masters of Arts in Contextual Leadership and a Masters of Arts in Theology. She is credentialed in Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion\, LGBTQ+ gender and sexuality studies. \nTamice is a thought-leader in culturally relevant and critically conscious campus engagement among Black College students. She co-founded an Atlanta-based collective for HBCU campus practitioners and planted six student-led chapters on HBCU campuses in the southeast. She has served as Senior Director of Student Leadership & Engagement at Virginia Union University\, where she also taught courses in religious studies. Currently\, she trains youth mentors in diversity\, equity\, and inclusion\, and is certified in training related to LGBTQ+ sexuality and gender identity and is a green belt in Lean Six Sigma. \nOver the years\, Tamice has been a change-maker and pioneer for young people in her community. Throughout her life\, Tamice has connected\, supported\, and ministered to countless young adults. Her friendly and down-to-earth approach to public speaking and teaching\, as well as her dedication to research and learning\, has helped empower and inspire people in her community and beyond. In 2018 Tamice went on to found Sub:Culture Incorporated\, a nonprofit that provides holistic support and crisis relief for Black College Students. \nTamice lives in the East End of Richmond with her partner Ellison and her daughter Harlym. In her free time she enjoys discussing and dissecting hip-hop\, reading nonfiction\, writing\, watching documentaries\, singing with her daughter\, and eating her partner’s homemade pizza. She released her first book\, Faith Unleavened this past year. \nHear from Tamice about the Connect | Focus | Grow curriculum
URL:https://mentorva.org/event/connect-focus-grow-region-7/
LOCATION:Northern Virginia Community College’s Brault Building Room 321\, 4001 Wakefield Chapel Road\, Annandale\, Virginia\, 22203
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SUMMARY:December Community Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Grab your coffee or tea\, and join your mentoring program peers and MENTOR Virginia on Wednesday\, December 13th from 9:00 – 10:00 am for Community Coffee Hour. In our November session we had two program administrators sharing about ways they include youth voice in programming. In this session\, we will discuss ways we can include youth in data collection activities to support evaluation and continuous improvement. We’ll be joined by John Harris of MENTOR Virginia and Manolya Tanyu from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) for a discussion on incorporating youth voice in program evaluation and continuous improvement efforts. In this interactive session\, John and Manolya will help us think through benefits of involving youth and how we can achieve meaningful youth involvement. \nMENTOR Virginia will virtually host Community Coffee Hour every 2nd Wednesday of the month with mentoring program staff to create space for peer-to-peer learning and resource sharing\, and to address issues you and your organization might be facing during the pandemic and beyond. We hope to see you at an upcoming Community Coffee Hour! \nRegister to attend! \nMeet Our Guest Speakers: \n\nJohn Harris specializes in program evaluation and survey development with a particular focus on assessing match characteristics. He has worked as an independent consultant supporting mentoring programs since 2000. He joined the MENTOR Virginia team as a Technical Assistance Consultant in 2016. The National Mentoring Resource Center’s work dovetails perfectly with John’s mission to make high-quality evaluation and consultation useful and affordable to all mentoring programs. \nJohn is the lead author of the Match Characteristics Questionnaire (MCQ) and the Youth Mentoring Survey (YMS)\, which are recommended by the National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC) and used around the world. His publications have focused on mentoring relationship quality and include peer-reviewed journal articles\, toolkit contributions\, and the chapters\, “Assessing Mentoring Relationships\,” in both editions of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring (DuBois & Karcher\, Ed.s). In 2015\, John partnered with the School Volunteer Program (now EdConnect) in Australia to develop an evaluation toolkit that won a National Social Impact award. \nJohn earned his Masters at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education many\, many years ago. He currently works and lives in Fairfax\, VA\, with his wife and two wonderful kids. \n\nManolya Tanyu\, PhD\, a senior researcher at AIR\, brings 15 years of expertise in evaluations of community and school-based initiatives\, programs\, and services to promote youth development.  Dr. Tanyu is an advocate for supportive youth-adult relationships as a way to promote well-being and resilience and reduce delinquent behavior and system involvement. She has worked on several federally funded research studies of mentoring programs examining implementation and outcomes. She joined our November 2022 community coffee hour last year to share on the national study of the YMCA’s Reach & Rise® Mentoring program and therapeutic mentoring. Dr. Tanyu is committed to sharing research to contribute to practice and working with practitioners to build data and evaluation capacities. She is also passionate about bringing youth voice into programs and initiatives that serve youth. She is a Research Board member at the National Mentoring Resource Center where she provides evaluation technical assistance\, conducts resource reviews\, and writes for practitioners. She lives in Fairfax\, VA and is a volunteer mentor for Fairfax County Public Schools’ MentorWorks program.
URL:https://mentorva.org/event/december-community-coffee-hour/
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SUMMARY:December Public New Mentor Training
DESCRIPTION:Register HERE\nAre you considering becoming a mentor or getting ready to be a mentor? Take the first step and attend one of MENTOR Virginia’s virtual New Mentor Trainings. Let our trainers prepare you to be the most effective mentor possible. By attending our virtual training\, you will learn what to expect from a mentor-mentee relationship and proven strategies for success. At this session\, you will be introduced to: \n\nThe value of mentoring\nBoundaries of a mentoring relationship\nThe importance of a positive youth development approach\nStages of a mentoring relationship\, communication techniques\, and problem-solving strategies\nMentor/Mentee Activities\n\nMENTOR Virginia creates a lively atmosphere of learning and engages participants in interactive activities. Our goal is to have a minimum of 8 participants at each training session\, so consider bringing a friend\, colleague\, or sharing this training event with others interested in becoming a mentor. \n\n\n\nRegister to attend!
URL:https://mentorva.org/event/december-public-new-mentor-training-2/
CATEGORIES:New Mentor Training
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SUMMARY:Connect | Focus | Grow - Region 7 (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:The Connect | Focus | Grow training was developed as part of the National Mentoring Project\, a pilot project  managed by MENTOR in partnership with the America’s Promise Alliance / Center for Promise and with support from the Schultz Family Foundation. The National Mentoring Project aims to expand the web of quality relationship supports and social capital that younger employees/mentees/interns need to develop the skills necessary to successfully navigate the workplace including securing and sustaining employment. \nUnderlying this training is MENTOR’s guiding vision\, which is that all younger employees\, mentees\, and interns have access to a web of support from  caring adults and can form empowering relationships that: \n\nPromote the pursuit of the younger employees/mentees/intern’s passions\, skills and interests\nEnable younger employees/mentees/interns access to and exploration of spaces where these can be pursued\nHelp younger employees/mentees/interns overcome personal and/or institutional obstacles\n\nThis vision is underpinned by the approach MENTOR uses to help adults and younger employees form relationships\, which is grounded in positive development and youth-centrism. This approach: \n\nRecognizes that young people are assets and experts about themselves and their communities\nSupports young people in identifying and building strengths\nBrings young people and adults together to work as equal partners as appropriate\nBuilds young people’s connections to their own identity\, culture and community helping them to see  their own social capital and supporting the extension of social capital through mentoring\nEngages young people as leaders on issues that matter to them\n\nDate: 11/30/2023 \nTime: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. \nRegister to attend! \nMeet Your Facilitator: \n\nTamice Spencer-Helms is a published author\, speaker\, and trainer based in Richmond\, Virginia. graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006. She has since been in the non-profit sector\, serving thousands of young adults and college students. In addition to her Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and Copywriting\, Tamice has a Masters of Arts in Contextual Leadership and a Masters of Arts in Theology. She is credentialed in Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion\, LGBTQ+ gender and sexuality studies. \nTamice is a thought-leader in culturally relevant and critically conscious campus engagement among Black College students. She co-founded an Atlanta-based collective for HBCU campus practitioners and planted six student-led chapters on HBCU campuses in the southeast. She has served as Senior Director of Student Leadership & Engagement at Virginia Union University\, where she also taught courses in religious studies. Currently\, she trains youth mentors in diversity\, equity\, and inclusion\, and is certified in training related to LGBTQ+ sexuality and gender identity and is a green belt in Lean Six Sigma. \nOver the years\, Tamice has been a change-maker and pioneer for young people in her community. Throughout her life\, Tamice has connected\, supported\, and ministered to countless young adults. Her friendly and down-to-earth approach to public speaking and teaching\, as well as her dedication to research and learning\, has helped empower and inspire people in her community and beyond. In 2018 Tamice went on to found Sub:Culture Incorporated\, a nonprofit that provides holistic support and crisis relief for Black College Students. \nTamice lives in the East End of Richmond with her partner Ellison and her daughter Harlym. In her free time she enjoys discussing and dissecting hip-hop\, reading nonfiction\, writing\, watching documentaries\, singing with her daughter\, and eating her partner’s homemade pizza. She released her first book\, Faith Unleavened this past year. \nHear from Tamice about the Connect | Focus | Grow curriculum
URL:https://mentorva.org/event/connect-focus-grow-region-7-virtual/
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SUMMARY:November Public New Mentor Training
DESCRIPTION:Register HERE\nAre you considering becoming a mentor or getting ready to be a mentor? Take the first step and attend one of MENTOR Virginia’s virtual New Mentor Trainings. Let our trainers prepare you to be the most effective mentor possible. By attending our virtual training\, you will learn what to expect from a mentor-mentee relationship and proven strategies for success. At this session\, you will be introduced to:\n\n 	The value of mentoring\n 	Boundaries of a mentoring relationship\n 	The importance of a positive youth development approach\n 	Stages of a mentoring relationship\, communication techniques\, and problem-solving strategies\n 	Mentor/Mentee Activities\n\nMENTOR Virginia creates a lively atmosphere of learning and engages participants in interactive activities. Our goal is to have a minimum of 8 participants at each training session\, so consider bringing a friend\, colleague\, or sharing this training event with others interested in becoming a mentor.\nRegister to attend!
URL:https://mentorva.org/event/november-public-new-mentor-training/
CATEGORIES:New Mentor Training
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