Volunteer mentors are the foundation of the Aspire Mentoring Program. Currently, we have a waitlist of local children waiting to match with a mentor to care for, guide, and support them. While we offer our New Mentor Orientations (NMOs) on a regular basis, we'd like to have a special community NMO on Wed, May 6th, 11:30 am-1:30 pm at Maude Cobb to coincide with GLUW's Week of Action. We are also very excited to share that this will be the first time we will offer our training in Spanish as well as English! There is no obligation to mentor after attending, but our goal is to have a large percentage of attendees continue the process to get cleared and become a volunteer mentor with us.
New Mentor Orientation is a 2-hour, evidence-based interactive training for prospective Aspire mentors. Our vision is to gather everyone together for the first part of the training, and then break out into two groups to offer both English and Spanish instruction. Our NMOs include videos, discussion, mentoring scenarios, and ample time for questions. NMOs are constructed to give attendees a basic knowledge of Positive Youth Development (PYD), and a strengths-based approach to working with children and families.
