All reflective youth practitioners understand that being a mentor isn’t simply about having cool conversations.
The complexities and barriers that today's young people are facing require skilled professionals, equipped with up to date knowledge, tools and resources.
Our mentoring training shares strategic, evidenced-based, and trauma-informed youth mentoring methodologies, that give mentors the much needed time to reflect, explore and develop their youth work and mentoring practice.
Levels of Mentoring Training
Level 1 - Awareness:This is a short awareness course, that provides basic awareness of what mentoring is, without developing your own people skills to deliver mentoring.
Level 2 - Principles: This is a one day CPD course for those already using their experience and people to skills to mentor someone.
Level 3 - Practitioner: This is a Ofqual Regulated Qualification that enables you to demonstrate that you have met the level of knowledge and reflection required to deliver high-quality mentoring.
Level 4 - Advanced Practitioner: This is a Ofqual Regulated Qualification that enhances a Practitioner's knowledge with further modules. You may train lower-level mentors with this qualification.
Youth Mentoring Qualifications
Level 3 Child and Youth Mentor
Gain the knowledge and reflection required to deliver high quality mentoring to young people from a range of backgrounds, as part of a CSR project or in the community.
Gain the knowledge and understanding of the purpose of a mental health youth mentor. Designed for youth practitioners working in primary and secondary schools that deliver individual or group interventions.
Enhance and deepen your practitioner's knowledge with further modules to become a competent mental health youth mentor. You may train those new to mentoring with this qualification.