Big Brothers Big Sisters and Connect-4 Group Mentoring

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group
Location: Adelaide
Big Brothers Big Sisters is an internatonally recognised 1:1 community based mentoring program for young people aged 7-17. Big Brothers Big Sisters operates from 38 countries world wide. BBBS of Adelaide is auspiced by the YWCA of Adelaide and is licenced through Big Brothers Big Sisters Australia Inc. [ more info... ]

Community Mentoring

SA Type of Program: One to One
Location: Smithfield Plains
Community mentoring program enables volunteers in the community to assist a young person to remain connected to school. By sharing life experiences, skills and knowledge mentors can help a young person plan for their future, gain more from education and become successful members of the community. Mentoring is a positive, supported relationship between a young person and a caring adult. [ more info... ]

Community Mentoring Program - Inner North

SA Type of Program: One to One
Location: Greenacres
Community Mentoring occurs at school, for one hour a week. The focus of this program is to support a young person who has been identified as being "at risk of leaving school early" and to support the transition of students from primary to secondary school. By sharing activities and exposing a young person to new experiences, the mentor encourages positive choices, promotes high self esteem, provides opportunities, supports academic achievement, and introduces the young person to new ideas. [ more info... ]

Community Mentoring Program - Millicent High School

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group
Location: MILLICENT
The focus of this program is to support young people with transition to secondary school and within the years of secondary schooling; assist talented students by matching them with an expert in that particular field and to help all students to reach their full potiential. By sharing activities and exposing youth to new experiences, a mentor encourages positive choices, promotes high self esteem, provides opportunities, supports academic achievement, and introduces the young person to new ideas. Students in the program have a variety of attributes, skills and sensitivities. [ more info... ]

Community Mentoring Program - Port Augusta/Quorn

SA Type of Program: One to One, E-Mentoring
Location: Port Augusta
The Community Mentoring Program enables volunteers in the community to help a young person stay connected to schooling. By sharing your life experiences, skills and knowledge you help a young person plan for their future, gain more from education and become successful members of the community. Mentoring also supports students through their transition from Primary School to High School. [ more info... ]

Community Mentoring Program Oakbank Area School

SA Type of Program: One to One
Location: Oakbank
The aim of the program is to keep students in years 8 and 9 connected to schooling/ plan for their future, gain a better education and become successful members of the community through sharing mentor life experiences, skills and knowledge. You will meet new people, make new friends and receive on-going support and training, as well as personal rewards. We have so many mentors who are noticing a huge improvement with their students, just through the student having a special person to confide and trust in and to share experiences. [ more info... ]

Connect - Encourage, Motivate, Reward

SA Type of Program: One to One
Location: Woodcroft
Sammy D Connect - Encourage, Motivate, Reward Working with the community focusing on harm prevention, positive life choices, mentoring, support and involvement in activities such as sport and music. HOW WILL CONNECT WORK? Program Coordinator liaises with club. Potential mentors identified. [ more info... ]

Families SA Mentoring Program

SA Type of Program: One to One
Location: North Adelaide
Mentoring is based on the development of a positive relationship between the young person and an adult. Through the mentoring relationship, they each make a commitment of time and energy to promote the young person’s personal, academic, or career development and social, athletic or artistic growth. The Mentoring Program provides young people with adult support and role models who will assist young people to: • develop positive relationships • develop trust • develop self confidence • receive honest feedback in a non threatening manner • develop a feeling of being valued for oneself • have someone to turn to in a crisis • improve relationships within their family and community The primary factors in matching young people with mentors are the interests, needs and goals of the young person. [ more info... ]

Flinders University Transition Mentoring Program

SA Type of Program: Group, Peer
Location: Bedford Park
The Transition Mentor Program assists first-year students from the Southern region to settle in at Flinders University, and to have an enjoyable and rewarding time at the Uni. The Transition Mentor Program provides the new students with a Transition Mentor who can answer their questions and help them adjust to University life. Transition Mentors are a point of contact for any questions or issues the new students might have. [ more info... ]

FUSE

SA Type of Program: One to One
Location: Adelaide
The Fuse mentoring program is an initiative of Baptist Care SA. The name "Fuse" came from the notion of making connections. Fuse is a community mentoring program designed to support young people from refugee backgrounds who are settling in Adelaide. [ more info... ]

HYPA Youth Mentoring

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group
Location: Adelaide
The HYPA (Helping Young People Achieve) Youth Mentor Program seeks to build caring and committed relationships between community members and disadvantaged young people. Volunteers support young people through group programs in a range of areas including education, training, employment and recreation. [ more info... ]

INSPIRE Peer Mentor Program

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group, Peer
Location: Bedford Park
INSPIRE operates in the Southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. The INSPIRE Peer Mentor Program (INSPIRE) is an innovative response to increase participation in education for children and young people who are identified as being 'at risk' of not completing their education. INSPIRE immerses Flinders University student volunteer mentors for 2-6 hours per week with children and young people as co-learners in their learning environment, both inside and outside the 'traditional' classroom. [ more info... ]

iTrack

SA Type of Program: E-Mentoring
Location: Adelaide
iTrack aims to support and inform senior high school school students who are beginning to formulate their post-school plans, by pairing them with active members of the workforce who can offer encouragement, advice and share the benefit of their experiences. As a mentor you will work together with your student on activities regarding their future career and other personal development topics. The majority of interaction takes place on-line through specifically designed and monitored chat rooms and message boards. [ more info... ]

Julia Farr Association Youth Mentor Program

SA Type of Program: One to One
Location: Unley
The Julia Farr Association Youth Mentor Program is a 1:1 volunteer mentor program for young people living with a disability aged 11-16 years old who will be mentored by young adults aged 16-30 years living with a disability. The vision for the project is that young people living with disability are moving into leadership roles in their own lives and in their own communities and will be empowered in their life choices and through their own capacity to shape their own future. The program aims to improve community attitude towards people living with disability, enhance a young person's confidence and outlook of living with disability, reduce the social exclusion that people feel and experience and immerse young leaders living with a disability in our community. [ more info... ]

Out n About - Mentoring

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group, Team
Location: Adelaide
The St Vincent de Paul Society (SA) Inc. mentoring program focuses on offering friendship and support to young people who are at risk of poverty, neglect and abuse, in the form of positive role modelling. We aim to do this by: - Providing a supportive and caring environment to engaged at-risk youth in positive role-modelling. [ more info... ]

Panyappi

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group, Team, Peer, E-Mentoring
Location: Angle Park
Panyappi (young brother or sister) Indigenous Youth Mentoring. The Parks commumity centre 2/46 Cowan Street Angle park SA 5010. PO Box 2337 Regency Park 5942. [ more info... ]

Personal Leadership Training

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group, Team, Peer
Location: Somerton Park
The aim of Youth Opportunities (YO) Personal Leadership Training is for all young people to develop values, knowledge and skills so that they can help themselves, regardless of their circumstances. YO training is designed to make a difference to the overall culture of a community by changing the attitudes and habits of individual members, and by providing them with a framework of thinking so that they can create happier and more successful lives. During our training, concepts (body of knowledge) are internalised via the various methodologies we use so that personal qualities and skills can be developed and practiced. [ more info... ]

Port Lincoln High School Pilot Program and EPSA

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group
Location: Port Lincoln
Port Lincoln High School is committed to developing and enhancing community links to utilise the power of experience and benefit the varied needs of our students. All our mentors give freely and willingly knowing that to grow and prosper as a community we need to invest in our youth. My goal is to promote the programs through active recruitment of mentors and raising awareness at all levels that development of our youth is an important element in any vibrant town. [ more info... ]

RUSH Mentoring

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group
Location: Henley Beach
RUSH (Reducing youth Self Harm) offers to the community, with community participation, a project that targets youth who are 'at risk' or actively involved in anti-social behaviour, drug and alcohol use, offending, and self harming. RUSH is a mentoring program that is implemented in the local community for the benefit of the whole community. [ more info... ]

Secondary Mentoring Program

SA Type of Program: One to One
Location: Adelaide
The Secondary Mentoring program promotes the building of quality relationships between mentors and students. It will operate in 54 secondary schools across South Australia from 2008-10. The aim of the program is to support the individual needs of selected students in years 10-12, to remain at school and reach their full potential. [ more info... ]

Spectrum PMP

SA Type of Program: Group, Peer
Location: Netley
Peer Mentor program assisting people with autism and Asperger syndrome to connect and make important life transitions. [ more info... ]

Tertiary Mentoring Program

SA Type of Program: One to One
Location: Adelaide
The Smith Family's tertiary 'Learning for Life' scholarship program supports university and TAFE students through a 00 scholarship per year towards educational expenses. These scholarship recipients are offered the opportunity to be linked with a mentor. The Tertiary Mentoring Program is designed to support the students through their period of study and to support their trainsition into the workforce. [ more info... ]

Volunteer Youth Mentor Service

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group, Peer
Location: Adelaide
Service to Youth Council Inc (SYC) is one of the longest serving independent community organisations in South Australia. Established in 1958 SYC has over 50 years experience in the design, coordination and delivery of case management, education, accommodation, recreation and personal support services for disconnected and high needs young people aged 12-25 years. SYC's Volunteer Youth Mentor Service seeks to build caring and committed relationships between community members and young people. [ more info... ]

Whitelion Mentoring Program

SA Type of Program: One to One, Group
Location: Angle Park
Leaving Care Mentoring Young people enter the Out-of-Home Care system through no fault of their own and have often experienced abuse and neglect. Many young people leaving Out-of-Home Care (when they turn 18 years old) lack any connection to their community and suffer from isolation and loneliness. The Whitelion Leaving Care Mentoring Program works with young people from 16 years of age and aims to match the young person with a mentor from the community before they become independent. [ more info... ]

Youth Mentoring Project 2010

SA Type of Program: One to One
Location: Port Lincoln
The West Coast Youth Services Youth Mentoring Project is a program initiated by Case Workers after identifying difficulties faced by our clients in succesfully transitioning towards independent living. It is based on our Belief Statement that "We believe every young person is a special individual who has the right to be listened to, respected, encouraged, Supported, Craed for, Loved Understood, Accepted and heard in a non-judgemental, unbiased, supported environment in their journey towards independence, adulthood and a succesful career" It aims to address the inequalities faced by young people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The main purpose of the program is to give these individuals other experiences that they may not previously have had the opportunity to enjoy, such as someone being there to listen and be a good role model for them. [ more info... ]