MENTOR Canada Launches New System Based on Prof. Spencer & Colleagues’ Framework for Mentoring Relationships
“Youth mentoring is a powerful tool for prevention and intervention, but for decades the practice has outpaced its underlying science, revealing modest outcomes.” So stated a 2021 paper by BU School of Social Work Prof. Renée Spencer, University of Arkansas Prof. Timothy Cavell, and University of South Carolina Prof. Sam McQuillin, which outlined data-proven ways that youth mentoring organizations can have more impact on young people and their mentors. Now, the national organization MENTOR Canada has developed the Quality Mentoring System (QMS) based on Prof. Spencer’s publication that will provide tools, resources, and professional learning opportunities for Canadian mentoring programs.
MENTOR Canada will launch the program with a webinar for mentoring organizations that will cover the benefits of QMS, including:
- An online self-assessment for mentoring programs to better understand their current practices within the context of QMS
- Evidence-informed tools and techniques to improve the quality of the program
- Access to the only National Community of Practice on Mentoring in Canada
- Support from MENTOR Canada’s Quality Mentoring and Capacity-Building Specialist
Profs. Spencer and Cavell are panelists at the launch event where they will share their framework for mentoring relationships, and how it informed the development of QMS to promote mentoring program quality and innovation.
Register for the launch today:
Date & Time
Wednesday, January 18, 2022 | 1pm-2pm ET
Details
This is a virtual event.