| The 11th Annual Minnesota Mentoring Conference has been set for Monday, October 25, 2010, so mark your calendars! This year's theme is Quality in Action. The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota (MPM) will again host the conference at the Continuing Education & Conference Center on the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus. Further details will be posted as they become available. Call for Conference Presenters: You are invited to submit a proposal to conduct a professional development workshop at the conference. For guidelines and the proposal form, click here. Submissions are due by May 17, 2010 at 5pm. Attendees have called MPM's annual conference exceptional, energizing and inspirational. Read the testimonials below, then check out highlights from last year's conference here.
2009 Conference Participant Comments: -
“At the end of the day, I leave the Mentoring Conference feeling new energy within my heart and mind, and anxious to put into practice the wonderful strategies that I have learned that day either from a workshop, a colleague, the Great Idea Exchange (GIE), or a simple conversation at lunch! Every moment is worthwhile and I appreciate the careful thoughtfulness that goes into creating the conference schedule. Thank you!” -
“This was a wonderful way to get re-energized and gain new ideas to deliver a better mentoring program to our participants.” - “I cannot wait to share the Balloo and Bagheera analogy with fellow staff, volunteers, and donors! The conference was a great professional development experience! I liked the PowerPoint celebrating the mentoring programs and the Great Ideas Exchange (GIE)! The GIE should be a must for ALL conferences everywhere!”
The 11th Annual Minnesota Mentoring Conference is made possible through the generous support of sponsors. 
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This year's conference features keynote speaker Andrea Taylor, Ph.D., Director of Training at Temple University's Intergenerational Center. Dr. Taylor is the Developer and Principal Investigator of Across Ages, an evidenced-based model project funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, which involves intergenerational mentoring as an approach to positive youth development and the prevention of risk-taking behavior. Dr. Taylor provides consultation, training and technical assistance to a variety of private agencies, non-profit organizations, universities, school districts, and federal and state agencies, including the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Child Welfare League of America, the National Society for Prevention Research, and the National Council on the Aging. She currently serves on the MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership's Research and Policy Council. She has published numerous articles specific to intergenerational mentoring, adolescent substance abuse prevention, and positive youth development. Dr. Taylor is also the author of Mentoring Across Generations: Partnerships for Positive Youth Development. (2000). Kluwer/Plenum Press. |