Volunteers working with young people are invited to join SCVO’s training event ‘Introduction to Youth Mentoring.’
The free, online course runs over two morning sessions on July 20/21 and covers the basics of professional mentoring. Any volunteers aged 16+ who are linked to a youth organisation can sign up to help get a better understanding of how to support and signpost young people.
Delivered by West Midlands Mentoring, we will cover key tenets of professional mentoring practice:
- planning and preparation for change
- conflict management and resolution
- personal solutions (thoughts and beliefs)
- safeguarding
- ethical capture of information, the importance of accuracy, confidentiality etc
All attendees will receive a personal completion certificate. Early booking essential as places are limited, but if the Eventbrite bookings are full please join the waiting list to be considered for additional dates.
You can book directly here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-youth-mentoring-tickets-159417697625
For more information please contact kim@scvo.info
Not quite ready for the Games? Help is on hand if you want to try your luck at being part of the Commonwealth Collective and volunteer for Birmingham 2022.
Volunteers play an integral part within an organisation and are often the heartbeat that supports the development and delivery needed to make things happen. It is therefore important that organisations understand their legal obligations to protect themselves and their volunteers.
Showtime Community Productions are a newly formed amateur dramatics group based in Wednesbury. They work with like-minded individuals from their local community interested in developing their skills in the performing arts, which they put to good use by developing and putting on community pantomimes, for the benefit of the local community.
With stores on the high street now open again, the long-established charity, CT Furniture, are launching an appeal for a new wave of volunteers to help, in their three retail stores across the West Midlands.
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