Gearing Up for Fall - College
Jun/Jul 2022 | Issue No. 30
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This Issue Funding · Mic Up Mentoring · News · European Summit
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From the Editor
Money, although necessary, will not solve the need for quality mentoring if mentors, especially males, do not volunteer to mentor. Mentors show up, validate, and empower.
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Thanks to MENTOR's Advocacy Team and Oklahomans who spoke to Congressional leaders about their programs and the importance of mentoring.
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Roundtable Webinar - College Programs |
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Share best practices and chat through a Mic Up Mentoring webinar for college programs.
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USAFacts.org is a non-partisan, not-for-profit resource of numbers and trends in government spending to determine gaps between the federal government's services and community needs. User-friendly and helpful!
Foldscope Foldscope is the paper microscope that began as an idea to make science more accessible. For kids, mentoring programs, schools, parents...
FREE Mentor Training Targeting Young Adults: Older Foster Youths, Foster Alumni, Justice-Involved, Those with Visible and Invisible Disabilities. Trainees: Nonprofits, churches, and agencies operating mentoring programs. Training consists of three research-based, online courses from MentoringCentral.org. Email Nicole George, Community Planner, Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth
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We applaud all who increasingly value mentoring, internships, apprenticeships, and leadership programs to improve quality of life and workforce development.
Certificate programs for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities: OU SoonerWorks, NSU RiverHawks Scholars Program, and coming in the fall OSU Opportunity Orange Scholars. USAO is considering a program. Renee N. Sansom Briscoe, Transition Coordinator, Vocational Rehabilitation, Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services. Opportunities!
Ask corporations and businesses to sponsor your college programs, e.g., for engineers.
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Many European countries' mentoring organizations work together for identifying, validating, and spreading quality mentoring from elementary age through adult.
Theme: "linking formal and informal mentoring in a holistic approach."
Mentoring by students in higher education - a tool for social inclusion
For international access, a consortium of countries is developing for training, an implementation plan, and a web-platform, based upon research and testing, for higher education institutions easily to establish formal peer mentoring in universities. Due next May.
Building an international partnership for the creation of a quality certification system
Two European organizations are well underway to develop an international
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quality seal for mentoring programs encompassing elementary through adult ages. The system will involve all types of social mentoring programs, 10 requirements to validate quality methodology, and a set of standards. Programs will apply for the seal.
Mentoring as a necessity for maintaining professionalism and skills for women: A participation model
The International Women’s Centre (IVC) stands for the empowerment of humans towards social self-reliance and financial independence. To achieve this, the IVC developed the IVC Participation Ladder Model (IPM), a scientifically validated model with European recognition. We use this model to help women develop themselves. The focus is on climbing the ladder, i.e. personal growth. This starts with women in isolation and advances through five more steps: Social Contacts Outside, Participation in Activities, Unpaid Work, Paid Work with Help, Paid Work. Presentation PDF with model in English. Website in some English: Mentoring – Internationaal Vrouwencentrum Den Helder (ivcdenhelder.nl)
Editorial comment: Isolating anyone, child, older teen, or an adult, makes them subject to manipulation, depression, mind control, victimization, and much more.
More highlights are forthcoming.
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