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| | The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota
The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota (MPM) builds and supports mentoring programs to ensure that every child and volunteer has a quality experience.  |
Gain access to valuable resources, including new tools, grant announcements, event information, and mentor recruitment opportunities. Register your Minnesota youth mentoring program today! |  | Complete the Quality Mentoring Assessment Path (QMAP), developed by MPM to help mentoring programs validate and build their programs based on nationally recognized quality standards and research & evidence. Learn more.
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Mentoring is one of the most significant ways that you can impact the life of a young person. Search and find a Minnesota mentoring program or volunteer opportunity. Learn more.
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Visit the Training Institute to register for popular workshops and networking opportunities or to learn about customized training and consultation.
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Your mentoring program, youth, mentors and families are invited to join MPM and our collaborative Youth Policy Alliance partners to participate in the 2012 Youth Day at the Capitol, February 21. Share your personal mentoring story with your elected officials and ask them to support a comprehensive youth system for young people in our state. Register today! Click here to learn more.
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Listen to this great podcast on Clear Channel Radio featuring MPM's Polly Roach and Kinship of Greater Minneapolis mentor Gary Preston. Polly and Gary are interviewed by Lee Valsvik on her Insights public affairs program. | 
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MPM's Webinar Series brings you a FREE webinar every month that features examples of some of the most pressing topics facing the youth mentoring field. The topic for the next webinar on February 16 is "Meaningful Mentoring for High Risk Youth: Tips for Mentors and Program Coordinators" featuring Dr. Roger Jarjoura.
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The Elements of Effective Practice training covers best practices for mentoring program design, management, operations and evaluation in an efficient two-day format. Registration has closed for this February 6 & 7 workshop. If you wish to be put on a waitlist, please contact April Rirodan at april@mpmn.org or 612.370.9148.
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MPM's Executive Youth Board decided MPM should provide resources and a place to share ideas for preparing mentees for successful mentoring relationships, so they developed a five-minute video, and this free resource was born.
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This new, free guide from the Harvard School of Public Health provides mentors with information and guidance on how to make healthy eating and physical activity natural parts of the mentor-mentee relationship. Want more resources for mentors? Check out this collection from MPM.
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Because research shows that discovering and nurturing teens' sparks helps them succeed, MPM and Search Institute collaborated to create new tools and training to help mentors become spark champions.
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MPM regularly posts new funding opportunities on the News and Funding Announcements page. Log in for access. Are you from a Minnesota youth mentoring program that doesn't have a registration ID and password yet? Register to receive access. |
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