MPM Training
The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota’s (MPM) Training Institute offers a wide variety of resources for mentor programs, workplaces, professional associations, and education, government and faith institutions to start, maintain, and sustain mentoring programs.
- Training Quality Mentors - Focused on developing and delivering your own quality mentor training
- Webinar Series - These webinars examine some of the most pressing topics facing the youth mentoring field and allow you to interact with your peers from the convenience of your office.
- Elements of Effective Practice - This training provides individuals and organizations with tools to design a responsible mentoring program based on the MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership’s Elements of Effective Practice for MentoringTM. This series also provides a solid foundation of knowledge regarding mentoring best practices for new and veteran staff of mentoring programs. A two-day workshop offered twice a year (winter and summer).
- Maximize Your Impact - Want to get a mentor matched but you don’t have another training coming up? Send your volunteer to an MPM mentor training!
- Become a Spark Champion - This workshop, based on Search Institute's Sparks concept, is designed for mentors. What is a spark? A spark is something that gives a person's life meaning and purpose, and discovering and nurturing teenagers' sparks helps them succeed.
- Mentoring Immigrant & Refugee Youth - This training takes participants through the process of designing and implementing high quality programming and relationships for diverse groups of immigrant and refugee youth.
- Mentee Training: Preparing for a Mentoring Relationships - Mentees can explore this online training resource on their own or with guidance from a parent or program manager at any time in order to prepare for a mentoring relationship.
- Special Workshops - In addition to the regularly-offered trainings listed above, MPM's Training Institute offers special, one-time workshops.
Download MPM's quarterly Training Institute Brochure.
