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February 6, 2025

Addressing the Mentoring Gap: Mentor Canada Featured in Hilborn Charity eNews

Hilborn Charity eNews recently published an article highlighting this critical issue and showcasing the work Mentor Canada is doing to bridge this gap through both strategic initiatives and grassroots actions.

January 29, 2025

Announcing a new national inclusive mentoring initiative from Mentor Canada and Mentorat Québec

Announcing a new national inclusive mentoring initiative from Mentor Canada and Mentorat Québec

November 7, 2024

The Key to Transformative mentoring? It's called attunement (and there's training for that!)

Mentor Canada is thrilled to announce the launch of groundbreaking new training designed to equip you with essential skills for fostering deeper, more impactful mentoring experiences.

September 5, 2024

Request for Proposals: Event Planning and Conference Management

Mentor Canada is currently seeking proposals for the delivery of conference management services for a three-day national conference to be held in Fall 2025. This conference aims to unite researchers, policymakers, service providers, government representatives, and global experts in mentorship.

September 4, 2024

Request for Proposals: Development & Implementation of an Outcome-based Evaluation Framework

Mentor Canada is requesting proposals to evaluate and assess the impact of a multi-year project to address systemic barriers to women's economic security and prosperity through mentoring.

July 1, 2024

New Study Reveals Mentoring as a Key to Unlocking Potential for Persons Experiencing Disabilities

Landmark research by Mentor Canada and Canadian Association for Supported Employment (CASE) reveals that mentoring boosts education outcomes, career achievements, and social inclusion for persons experiencing disabilities.

April 1, 2024

NEW: 3-part training on Inclusive Mentoring for Persons with Disabilities

Mentoring can transform a young person's potential to thrive--in school, in a career, and in life. This is the heart of Mentor Canada's new learning series on Inclusive Mentoring for Persons with Disabilities.

December 1, 2023

This Mentoring Month, let's work together to close Canada's Mentoring Gap.

Over 2 million young Canadians are growing up without a mentor - we need to change that. This January during #MentoringMonth 2024, join Mentor Canada in raising awareness and momentum around the power of mentoring.

December 13, 2022

Time to activate: Mentor Canada gives mentoring a voice during #MentoringMonth

This year, Mentor Canada is elevating its impact by hosting its biggest #MentoringMonth campaign yet. Join the movement today.

October 5, 2022

Introducing Mentor Canada's New Quality Mentoring and Capacity Building-Specialist Ben Dantzer

Mentor Canada is pleased to announce that Ben Dantzer has joined the Mentor Canada team as the Quality Mentoring and Capacity-Building Specialist. Ben will lead quality mentoring & capacity building strategies at Mentor Canada

August 29, 2022

Storwell is Offering a $2,000 Annual Bursary Program to Help Foster Children Pursue Their Post-Secondary Education

In response to the growing number of foster children and youth in care that struggle to afford post-secondary studies, Storwell has developed the Storwell foster children bursary program, offering an annual bursary of $2,000. Learn more on eligibility requirements as well as application process and deadline.

August 23, 2022

New Research Shows How Mentors Support the Career Development of Canadian Youth Experiencing a Disability

Today, Mentor Canada and the Canadian Association for Supported Employment (CASE) jointly released key findings from the Mapping the Mentoring Gap research initiative. The findings show that Canadian youth experiencing disabilities who had access to a formal or informal mentor while growing up reported better mental health, employment, and educational outcomes compared to those who did not have a mentor.

August 1, 2022

New Professional Development Opportunity for Mentoring Program Staff

Mentor Canada is offering a unique professional development opportunity to a select number of Canadian mentoring program professionals on attunement in relationships and using the FAN (Facilitating Attuned Interactions) model.

June 16, 2022

Mentor Canada launches its revamped Mentor Connector, the only national database for mentoring

Discover the newly revamped Mentor Connector, making online and in-person mentoring opportunities easily searchable from coast to coast to coast.

February 1, 2022

Broadening and Deepening Access to Quality Mentoring in Canada

As #MentoringMonth 2022 comes to an end, Mentor Canada is pleased to launch its Strategic Plan for 2022 - 2025.

January 10, 2022

Join our January 2022 #MentoringMonth Campaign

If you’ve ever had a mentor or been a mentor -- at work, at school or in your life - then you know that mentoring can change lives. Mentoring amplifies relationships, learning, and opportunities. Join us as we amplify the benefits of mentoring for the thousands of young people in our community.

November 18, 2021

Impact of Mentoring Research Series 2021

Over the next few weeks, MENTOR Canada will be sharing some key research findings that show how mentoring supports young people’s journeys toward healthy and productive adulthood in the post-pandemic world.

November 16, 2021

Canadian Institute on Youth Mentoring: Mentoring & Mental Health

The Canadian Centre for Mentoring Research and MENTOR Canada will host the first-ever virtual edition of the Canadian Institute on Youth Mentoring (CIYM), where we will explore how mentoring supports the mental health of young people and discuss strategies to effectively mentoring youth with mental health needs. RSVP today!

August 25, 2021

MENTOR Canada recognizes September as an acknowledgement & celebration of Indigenous Youth Mentoring

In solidarity with Indigenous people, MENTOR Canada recognizes September as an acknowledgement & celebration of Indigenous Youth Mentoring

June 28, 2021

Building a Mentoring Movement in Canada in partnership with the Students Commission of Canada

MENTOR Canada and the Students Commission of Canada (the SCC) have partnered with young people to explore how we can Build a Mentoring Movement and ensure they get access to mentors while growing up.

June 16, 2021

Join our #MentorPride series as we amplify the LGBTQ2S+ communities across Canada

May 11, 2021

Young Canadians to benefit from full-featured, safe, free e-mentoring solution

MENTOR Canada and MentorCity are bringing a safe, no-fee, audio, video, and text-based mobile accessible, e-mentoring platform to young people across Canada.

January 26, 2021

Mentoring comes in various forms providing numerous benefits

In our 4th article published in Windspeaker, MENTOR Canada provides an overview of it's Power of Mentoring events, and explains how we can expand these events to Indigenous organizations, Elder, Knowledge Keepers and private corporations as partners to grow the Indigenous Mentoring Movement.

January 20, 2021

Government Officials Recognizing and Celebrating #MentoringMonth 2021

Government Officials Recognizing and Celebrating #MentoringMonth 2021

January 18, 2021

Edmonton-based Coyote Pride program seeking additional mentors

In our 3rd article published in Windspeaker, we talk about the urgent need for new mentors to assist the many children who are feeling the impacts of the pandemic, in particular an Indigenous Mentoring program seeking 20 new mentors for online mentoring programming.

January 11, 2021

Mentoring has various forms and countless benefits for both mentees and mentors

In our 2nd article featured in Windspeaker, we explain the difference between informal and formal mentoring, and how we can help you start your journey as a mentor.

January 4, 2021

This January, #MentoringMonth calls more Canadians to step up as mentors

In our 1st article featured in Windspeaker, we talk about how we are looking at building awareness with organizations, agencies, schools and stakeholders to promote and support mentoring for Indigenous children and youth.

December 3, 2020

How can we #BuildBackBetter?

Did you not have a chance to attend the Future of Good summit? Discover what was said on improving wellbeing and bridging the digital divide.

November 11, 2020

What does the Research say about recruitment?

Thinking about recruitment of new Mentors? We would like to highlight a few key research findings that may help you reflect on how to recruit more mentors that remain committed and engaged in your program.

November 9, 2020

This November, #ThankYourMentor

Share your story and encourage the next generation to step up to become mentors

November 6, 2020

MENTOR Canada supports Black Business and Professional Association

Featured in the Caribbean Camera: MENTOR Canada is providing tools, training, and expertise to help launch MentorME, a six-month mentoring program for Black youth.

November 3, 2020

National Youth Employment Sector Town Halls – Expanding the need for Youth Mentoring

Discover our summary report on the National Youth Employment Sector Town Halls from this past June 2020, hosted by the Canadian Council for Youth Prosperity

September 28, 2020

Power of Mentoring with Deloitte’s Impact Everyday Campaign

MENTOR Canada is teaming up with Deloitte from October 19 through November 13 to expand the Power of Mentoring with Deloitte's Impact Everyday campaign.

September 28, 2020

2020 Awards: Celebrating Four Visionary Leaders

As a final act as the Canadian Mentoring Partnership, we wanted to take a moment to recognize four special leaders who helped us initiate, grow and establish our initiative.

September 16, 2020

Recruit, Train and Engage New Mentors with our Online Mentor Orientation & Mentor Connector

Get listed in the Mentor Connector to access new volunteers. The Online Mentor Orientation is now available to help you engage and train new volunteers.

September 9, 2020

Introducing the Canadian Centre for Mentoring Research (CCMR)

The CCMR emerged from the joint efforts of Canadian researchers and mentoring professionals who noted the need for greater connections amongst researchers and between researchers and practitioners. Learn more here!

August 31, 2020

Reflections on the Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring 2020

This year, MENTOR Canada attended the Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring. Here are our reflections.

August 14, 2020

We’re rebranding: Introducing MENTOR Canada

After many years of collaboration between our Founding Partners, the Canadian Mentoring Partnership is excited to announce that we are rebranding.

July 14, 2020

An open letter to corporate, government and charitable leaders around the world

In collaboration with six other global collective impact mentoring organizations, we authored an open letter to world leaders.

June 30, 2020

Preliminary Youth Mentoring Survey Results

What are the unmet mentoring needs of Canadian youth?

June 30, 2020

New Mentorship Program Dedicated to Black Youth

Starbucks Canada, the Black Business and Professional Association and the Canadian Mentoring Partnership Come Together to Create a Mentorship Program Dedicated to Black Youth

June 10, 2020

Symposium 2020 Webinar Series: Highlights, Videos and Presentations

While we were disappointed that we were not able to welcome you in-person to Ottawa for our Canadian Mentoring Symposium and Hill Day 2020, our team pivoted to a series of online conversations.

May 14, 2020

E-Mentoring Key Topic Overview - Now Available for Download

May 14th -- The Canadian Mentoring Partnership (CMP) is excited to share the first of our key topic overviews: E-Mentoring.

February 24, 2020

Edmonton Youth to Connect With Business Community at City Hall Speed Mentoring Night Kick-Off Event

This speed mentoring event, which kicks off a national tour on Thursday, February 27 at Edmonton City Hall, will connect volunteers from diverse industries and career pathways with youth ages 18-24.

August 12, 2019

Canadian Mentoring Partnership Launches Recruiting Management Team to Support Youth Mentoring in Canada

Today, the Canadian Mentoring Partnership (CMP) announced its senior leadership and identified its first order of business: to recruit a strong management team.

June 4, 2019

Canadian Youth Will Thrive Through Mentoring Relationships Thanks to Catalyst Funding

On June 3rd, Federal Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, The Honourable Patty Hajdu, announced a multi-million-dollar investment to help young Canadians through expanded opportunities and enhanced formal mentoring relationships.

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