Haringey Early Help & Prevention Service has teamed up with Community Links in East London to bring a Peer Mentoring Scheme to Haringey.
‘More than Mentors’ is a new and creative model of peer mentoring, which has been co-designed and co-delivered with young people, with psychology support from the East London Foundation Trust and evaluation by the Anna Freud Centre. Through peer mentoring we are looking to build young people’s emotional resilience and self-confidence, improve their attendance and attainment at school and offer a preventative approach to mental health and emotional distress.
What does More than Mentors offer?
For the Mentors – young people aged 13 to 20 years will be offered an accredited (NOCN level 2) training as a peer mentor, the opportunity to apply their mentoring skills, specialist supervision throughout the programme and further training and development of leaderships skills.
For the Mentees – for young people aged 9 to 17yrs they will be able to meet with a mentor in a safe and supported setting for up to 10 sessions to build on their strengths and develop goals for their future.
For the School – As well as supporting your work with young people, the More than Mentors team will provide a Training the Trainers programme so that More than Mentors can become a sustainable offer.
Views of Young People
Mentor – “I feel more confident in becoming a peer mentor due to the regular and open discussions we have, as a group, we discuss feelings the mentee may feel and how to get them to open up, in the most relaxed and informal way possible”
Mentee – “Cause I know like, she’s gonna listen. And sit there and not judge me on it. … she proper listens. Like, sometimes, no one listens. But she proper listens.”
More than Mentors – Now available to Secondary Schools in Haringey!
Through funding provided by the Department of Health we are now in a position to offer More than Mentors to young people in a Haringey Secondary School.
If you are interested, or for more information please contact:
alison.hackshaw@haringey.gov.uk 020 8489 3844