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Newsletter
| 9th, March 2004 |
Mentoring and Effective Practice
There is growing evidence that Mentoring offenders is highly effective.
This model shows the links to the various components of what seems to work best in working with offenders, and integrates those aspects of the mentoring role with those component parts. |
| 14th, December 2003 |
Further conferences
The planning group for the Mentoring 2000 conferences are considering two more conferences, one for Mentors themselves, rather than Mentoring Managers and Co-ordinators, and the other a day event looking at pushing out the boundaries of mentoring with offenders. There is growing interest in the question of how and whether mentors might be used with high risk and dangerous offenders, and persistent and prolific offenders. The planners want to make an opportunity for issues such as these to be considered.
We are looking at early to mid 2005 for these events. (we do have other jobs as well!) |
| 14th, December 2003 |
Mentoring and Transactional Analysis
It seems to me that Transactional Analysis (TA) represents a rich opportunity for the enhancement of the mentor/mentee relationship. Is anyone out there interested in TA? Get in touch via this website if so. It could prove a fruitful discussion, and who knows, we might be able to turn the results into a topic for a conference or seminar |
| 14th, December 2003 |
NMN Conference
Always worthwhile and relevant. The 2004 event takes place in Manchester on Thursday 13 May. For further information contact: mail@salfordbep.co.uk |
| 14th, December 2003 |
Seeking Planning Group members!!
Since their inception, the "Mentoring 2000" series of conferences have been organised by a small group of people, all of whom had an interest in involving mentors with offenders, and were keen to promote their use. For a number of reasons, the membership of the group has dwindled (ends of secondments, moves to other posts etc), so those of us remaining are looking for like-minded people to join us. What do we do? We organise conferences, and offer a consultancy service on mentoring with offenders. It isn't too demanding, except when we reach the point of staging a conference. That's when meetings and liaison take over, but the rewards are significant - not financially, because we are a non-profit making group, but in terms of satisfaction.
If anyone would like to know more, get in touch with me (Mike Denton, e-mail michaeldenton@onetel.net.uk) or with Charlie Watson (charlie.watson@virgin.net) and leave a phone number where we might contact you.
We look forward to hearing from you. |
| 14th, December 2003 |
Try this website
There's an excellent organisation based in Detroit, Michigan, called VIP.
VIP's business is to recruit, train, organise and support mentors to work with (mainly) young people at risk of falling foul of the law. Contact VIP by e-mail at:jdash@vipmentoring.org |
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