A tip for the "youth mentoring programme" direct from the approaches of
organisational learning:
Engage the mentors in their own development in the programme.
Many programmes are built on a model where there is person being supported
in their development and a person who is supporting. In most of these,
the development is assumed to be in a single direction. Where this is the
case, my observation is that it is difficult to maintain developers,
mentors, etc.
This makes sense to me. What doesn't involve the development of a person
does not maintain their interest for very long. In volunteer
organisations, that translates into effort and struggle to get volunteers
and attrition throughout the programme.
--
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