Training

Mentoring Best Practices: Intro to the EEPM5

Date: February 17
Time: 12-1 PM CST
Location:  Virtual
Facilitator: Melissa Westbrook
Audience: Mentoring professionals

High-quality mentoring doesn’t happen by chance—it’s built on proven practices. Join us for a high-level overview of the brand-new 5th Edition of the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring, a comprehensive guide offering evidence-based standards for creating and sustaining quality youth mentoring programs. This updated edition reflects the latest research and collective wisdom from the field. Whether you’re launching a new program or refining an existing one, you’ll gain an understanding of the most current mentoring best practices and how your program can use them to strengthen mentoring outcomes.

Rooted & Rising: A Celebration of Black and Brown Herstories

Date: March 17
Time: 5:30-7:00 PM CST
Location: UNO Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center
Facilitators:  Natavia Jones
Audience:  Mentoring & youth-serving professionals, mentors, youth counselors, educators and caregivers

This community conversation invites participants to reflect on their ancestry and roots, honoring those who came before us while uplifting voices that have too often been silenced or overlooked. Through joy, self-expression, and reflection, participants are encouraged to claim space for their stories and step more fully into their power.

Elements of Effective Practice in Mentoring Virtual Series

Dates: The first Thursday of the month from March-June (March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4)
Time: 9-11:30 AM CST
Location:  Virtual
Facilitators: MENTOR Nebraska, MENTOR Iowa & MENTOR Kansas
Audience: Mentoring & youth-serving professionals, mentors, youth counselors, educators and caregivers

High-quality mentoring doesn’t happen by chance—it’s built on proven practices. This four part training series walks you through the brand-new 5th Edition of the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring, reflecting the latest research and innovations in the field. Whether you’re launching a new program or refining an existing one, you’ll gain tools, insights, and actionable steps to create mentoring relationships that last and make a real impact.

Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series

Monthly on the 3rd Thursday
12 - 1:30 PM CST
Format: Webinar
Audience: Mentoring & youth-serving professionals

This webinar series is hosted by MENTOR National and facilitated by MENTOR and a planning team of MENTOR Affiliates, including MENTOR Nebraska. Through ongoing planning and evaluation of the latest developments in the field, this team delivers a webinar each month focused on strengthening mentoring practice, sharing new resources, and helping the field put research into practice.

MENTOR Nebraska provides capacity building support (called technical assistance) to mentoring programs throughout the state. Our team of mentoring experts can provide up to 50 hours of free consulting based on your program’s individual needs.

Examples include:

• Guidance on mentor recruitment
• Creating a program logic model
• Developing mentor training materials
• Strengthening volunteer screening practices
• Implementing diversity, equity & inclusion practices

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We also contract with youth-serving programs, schools, nonprofits, and government/community organizations across the country to develop custom trainings based on their specific needs.

Recent projects include:

• Nebraska Dept. of Education
• South Dakota Dept. of Labor & Regulation
• Nebraska 4-H
• Latino Center of the Midlands
• My Brother’s Keeper
• Omaha Performing Arts