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Mentor Canada has an immediate opening for a Director, Marketing & Communications. This position is remote and offers an attractive competitive salary and benefits package.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Government Officials Recognizing and Celebrating #MentoringMonth 2021

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

What are the unmet mentoring needs of Canadian 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

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

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.

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

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.