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Diaspora Youth Mentoring

Becoming a safe, useful mentor to young Caribbean people at home or abroad, or running a programme that matches them: safeguarding, matching, sessions, careers and scholarship coaching, events and impact.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Diaspora Youth Mentoring, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Pillar

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Area

50

Projects

200

Starter tasks

🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Diaspora Youth Mentoring

Mentoring young Caribbean people at home or abroad: setting up a mentoring programme, matching, sessions, careers advice and staying in touch.

  1. Deciding what kind of mentor you can be
  2. Safeguarding training and background check
  3. Personal code of conduct and boundaries as a mentor
  4. Choosing an established mentoring programme to join
  5. Mapping your career story and network for mentees
  6. Understanding the school and exam routes your mentee faces
  7. Safe remote mentoring set-up across time zones
  8. First meeting and written mentoring agreement
  9. Programme design brief for a new mentoring scheme
  10. Programme safeguarding policy and designated lead
  11. Matching criteria and matching process
  12. Mentor induction training session
  13. Fortnightly mentoring session rhythm
  14. Session notes and goal tracker
  15. Monthly supervision call with the coordinator
  16. Match health check-ins for coordinators
  17. Quarterly mentor circle
  18. Opportunities bulletin for mentees
  19. Termly update to parents and guardians
  20. Safeguarding records and data protection review
  21. Annual programme cycle from recruitment to closure
  22. Mentor recruitment drive in the diaspora
  23. Active listening and coaching questions practice
  24. Goal setting that works for teenagers
  25. Careers conversations from subjects to jobs
  26. Coaching scholarship and university applications
  27. Mock interviews and CV reviews with a mentee
  28. Conversations about identity, race and belonging
  29. Spotting distress and signposting to help
  30. Mentoring across differences within the Caribbean
  31. Choosing a tool to run the programme
  32. Rematching or ending a match that is not working
  33. Programme budget and cost per match
  34. Year-end feedback survey of mentees, mentors and guardians
  35. Piloting group mentoring circles
  36. Planned closure of a mentoring match
  37. Virtual careers week across time zones
  38. Results day support plan
  39. Work shadowing placement for a mentee
  40. End-of-year mentoring celebration
  41. Mentoring a young person newly arrived from the Caribbean
  42. Remote mentoring a young person in a rural community
  43. Mentoring a young person at risk of school exclusion
  44. Mentoring as a retiree with time to give
  45. Near-peer mentoring as a young graduate
  46. Mentoring scheme in a workplace Caribbean staff network
  47. Writing references and opening doors for a mentee
  48. Mentee-to-mentor pathway for programme alumni
  49. Measuring impact with a simple theory of change
  50. Training the next programme coordinators

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Deciding what kind of mentor you can be

Before signing up anywhere, decide honestly how many hours a month you can give for a full year, whether you want to mentor online or in person, and which age group you understand best: a 13-year-old facing CSEC subject choices needs something different from a 19-year-old weighing a job offer against university abroad.

First tasks

  • Block out a realistic monthly mentoring time in your calendar for the next year
  • Write down the age range you relate to best and why
  • List three topics where your experience would help a young person
  • Draft a one-paragraph mentor profile you can send to programmes

Safeguarding training and background check

Anyone mentoring under-18s will be asked for a criminal record check and basic safeguarding training, and the type depends on where you and the young person live: a DBS check in England and Wales, a vulnerable sector check in Canada, a state or fingerprint check in the US, or a police certificate of character in much of the Caribbean.

First tasks

  • Ask the programme which background check and training it requires
  • Gather the identity documents the check application needs
  • Complete an introductory safeguarding course and save the certificate
  • Check your safeguarding training and background check are still in date @recurring(yearly)

Personal code of conduct and boundaries as a mentor

Diaspora mentoring brings boundary questions most guidance never mentions: a mentee's family asking you to send money or a barrel, an invitation to stay at the house when you are home for Christmas, a teenager adding you on social media, or a request to help them lie about their age for a job.

First tasks

  • Read your programme's code of conduct start to finish
  • Write your own rule for requests for money, phones or shipped goods
  • Draft a kind sentence for turning down a request you cannot meet
  • Ask the coordinator about any situation the code does not cover

Make it yours.

Install Diaspora Youth Mentoring, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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