FEBRUARY
Learning from Mistakes: Strengthening Youth Safety
with Research-Based Screening Practices
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
10:00 am – 11:15 am PST
The past several months has seen multiple reports of respected and trusted adults accused of inappropriate sexual contact with children and youth. Friends for Youth has also seen an increase in the numbers of inquiries about our resource, SAFE (Screening Applicants for Effectiveness): Guidelines to Prevent Child Molestation in Mentoring and Youth-Serving Organizations) that many program staff use in screening and assessing their volunteers. We wanted to offer this webinar to take a closer look at Red Flags during the application and monitoring process – and how to use recommended tools to your advantage to uncover more information. This presentation will cover qualities and characteristics of perpetrators of child sexual abuse that we’ve learned from research on convicted child molesters and from our own 30+ year history of providing safe and effective mentors to vulnerable youth.
Program Director Sarah Kremer will be joined by Executive Director Becky Cooper, who co-authored our resource and first began looking into how to assess volunteers even before background checks were available. Please join us to learn more about keeping children and youth in your programs safe!
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In addition to offering various webinars in 2012, Friends For Youth’s Mentoring Institute is teaming up with frequent collaborators Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota's Training Institute, Education Northwest/National Mentoring Center, Oregon Mentors and other partners in the coming year to deliver a monthly webinar series for mentoring professionals. Each quarter, the series will feature webinars focused on sharing ideas for mentoring practice, mentoring research "round-ups," and highlights of innovation in the mentoring field. By combining our individual efforts and collective wisdom, we will be able deliver even better webinars to a wider audience of mentoring professionals. Webinars will take place on the third Thursday of each month.
FEBRUARY
Meaningful Mentoring with High-risk Youth: Tips for Mentors and Program Coordinators Working with High Risk Youth
Thursday, February 16, 2012
10:00-11:15 AM PST/ 11:00-12:15 PM MST/12:00-1:15 PM CST/1:00-2:15 PM EST
Dr. Roger Jarjoura, a professor with Indiana University-Purdue University, will describe his journey from researcher to mentoring program manager as the head of Aftercare for Indiana through Mentoring (AIM), a reentry program targeting juveniles in the correctional system transitioning back into their communities. Dr. Jarjoura will talk with webinar attendees about his "transformative mentoring" approach and respond to questions about his tips for both mentors and program coordinators who are working with high risk & system-involved youth.
Dr. Jarjoura was a research fellow at the 2011 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring at Portland State University. To read a summary of the research presented (including Dr. Jarjoura’s on pages 10-12), download It May Be the Missing Piece by webinar series collaborator Michael Garringer.
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Mentoring Institute Webinars
Our monthly webinar series highlights important
topics for youth mentoring programs.
PREVIOUS WEBINARS
Social Media + National Mentoring Month = Opportunity 12/13/11
Evidence-Based Activities to Build Mentoring Relationships 11/17/11
Mentoring Impacts on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention Efforts with Youth 10/18/11
Out Here in the Field: Special Issues for Rural Mentoring Programs 9/20/11
The Cream of the Crop: Recruiting the Right Mentors 8/16/11
Coming Together Across Cultures: Intentional Relationship Building 7/26/11
Helping Young People Find Their Spark 6/14/11
Mentoring Program Evaluation and Goals 5/16/11
Advanced Techniques for Screening Volunteer Mentors 4/19/11
The Diana Screen – An Effective Screening Tool To Reduce Sexual Risk To Children 4/21/11
Mentoring as Prevention for Modern Day Slavery & Sexual Exploitation 3/15/11
War of the Worlds: Long Term Effects of Early Maltreatment 2/15/11
Social Media + National Mentoring Month = Opportunity 1/18/11
Youth Mentoring Responds to Waiting for Superman 11/16/10
Building a Better Friendship Using a Structured Mentoring Journal 10/26/10
Successful Youth Mentoring Practices: Considerations and Guidelines 9/28/10
Click the links below to view recordings of Webinars provided
for other partnership mentoring organizations:
with the National Mentoring Center/Education Northwest
Going Beyond the Background Check: Incorporating SAFE Practices in Volunteer Programs with MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership
