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Youth Mentor Academy

The Youth Mentor Academy is the UK's leading professional training programme for aspiring and experienced Youth Mentors.

With our expert-led training, hands-on practice, and flexible learning options you can elevate your Youth Mentoring career.

For new and experienced Youth Mentors, social entrepreneurs and youth organisations.

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Our Youth Mentoring training shares strategic, evidenced-based, and trauma-informed youth mentoring frameworks and strategies, that give mentors the much needed time to reflect, explore and develop their youth mentoring practice.

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Become Youth Mentor practitioner

All reflective youth mentors are practitioners, and they understand that being a mentor takes more than having cool conversations.

With all the complexities and barriers that today's young people are facing, upskill yourself to develop the skill, knowledge and qualities of a youth mentor practitioner.

Become a professional Youth Mentor Practitioner; equipped to mentor young people as they transition safely into adulthood and careers.

Levels of Mentoring Training

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Beginner Level
Provides basics of youth mentoring best practices.

This is a short awareness course, that provides basic awareness of what mentoring is, without developing your own people skills to deliver mentoring.

Intermediate Level
Provides in depth knowledge of Youth Mentoring in Practice.

This is a one day CPD course for those already using their experience and people to skills to mentor someone.

Experienced Level
Provides advance knowledge and frameworks found within Youth Mentoring in Practice.

This level is for youth practitioners who want to enhance their mentoring skills, professional practice and industry recognition.

Qualification Practitioner Level
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.

Youth Mentoring Qualifications

Level 3
Community & Voluntary Youth Mentoring

The home of professional youth mentoring

Gain the knowledge and reflection required to deliver high quality mentoring to young people within community settings, as part of a CSR project or in the community.

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Level 4
Community & Voluntary Youth Mentoring

Enhance and deepen your community practitioner's knowledge to deliver high quality youth mentoring. You may train lower level mentors with this qualification.

Available on completion of
Level 3

Level 3
School-Based Youth Mentoring

Gain the knowledge and understanding of the purpose of school based youth mentoring. Designed for youth practitioners working in primary and secondary schools that deliver individual or group interventions.

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Level 4
School-Based Youth Mentoring

Enhance and deepen your practitioner's knowledge with further modules to become a highly competent pastoral youth mentor. You may train those new to mentoring with this qualification.

Available on completion of Level 3