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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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Save the Date! This year's conference is Monday, October 15 at the U of M Continuing Education and Conference Center on the St. Paul campus. MPM is excited to have Karen Pittman, President and CEO of The Forum for Youth Investment, joining us this year to guide our discussion around how our field can work together toward collective impact. Pittman is an expert in youth development and is known for her work with the Forum's Ready by 21 initiative. Ready by 21 is a set of innovative strategies that helps communities and states improve the odds that all children and youth will be ready for college, work and life. Pittman is also a respected speaker and an accomplished author. Stay tuned to MPM's upcoming e-newsletters and Facebook and Twitter posts for more information regarding this year's conference.
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MPM is working with other mentoring organizations across the country on the 2012 Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series, which brings you a FREE webinar every month focusing on practice, research and innovation in the youth mentoring field. The topic for the next webinar on May 17 is "STEM Mentoring for Youth with Disabilities: Research, Practice, and Resources." The topic for the June 21 webinar is "Better Mentoring for the LGBTQ Youth in Your Program: Stepping Up to the Challenge."
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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. Please contact April Rirodan at april@mpmn.org or 612.370.9148 for details on the next scheduled training or to organize a training for your organization.
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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. The guide is also now available in a Spanish language version. Contact MPM for your own copy. 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 sparks 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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