Peer mentors can also play a strong preventative role by providing emotional and practical support to those young people at risk of isolation, bullying or otherwise not achieving their full potential.This introductory day explores the ethos of peer mentoring, increases awareness and provides those working with young people aged 13-19 with a basic toolkit of ideas to create effective training sessions for young people volunteering to become peer mentors.
Course Objectives:
The training aims to:
- Consider how peer support works and how it can have a positive impact and build resilience
- Increase understanding of the peer-mentoring role
- Look at building positive relationships between mentors and mentee's
- Explore boundaries and confidentiality issues within peer mentoring
- Offer a framework for the development of a peer-mentoring scheme
Duration: 1 day
Time: 10am to 4pm
Lunch Provided: Yes
Cost: £99.00 + VAT per person
The next dates for this training are 5 June, 9 October and 3 December 2015 in London. If you would like to book a place on any of these courses please visit our training website.
For groups of six or more staff, why not run this training in-house?
For more information about the above training days and in-house training, please contact Rhys on 0203 137 3816 or learn@ukyouth.org