Volunteer Mentor Recruitment & Training

• Introduction to Volunteer Recruitment
• Recruitment of staff and volunteers - Minimum requirements
• Volunteer Powerpoint Templates - Videos
• Volunteer Training PPT Templates - July 2024

Volunteer Mentor Training - Thinkific

• Online Learning Platform (Thinkific)
• Guidance: Volunteer Mentor Training

• 1 Role of the Mentor

  • Activity Pack (Role of the Mentor)
  • More about intandem
  • Being a Mentor
  • Mentoring Stages
  • Developing the Mentoring Relationship

• 2 Understanding Young People & What It Means to Be Looked After

  • What it means to be 'Looked After' outline of resources available
  • Challenges faced by young people
  • Overview of the Children's Hearings System
  • What is a Children's Hearing
  • Going to a Children's Hearing (SCRA)
  • What does 'Looked After' Mean?
  • Empathy vs Sympathy - Brené Brown animation
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences 
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences Video - NHS Health Scotland
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences Video - NHS Wales
  • One Good Adult - Video from NHS Glasgow
  • Attachment & Trauma
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• 3 Values, Prejudice & Discrimination

  • Module Overview
  • Start of Moduler Survey
  • Values, Beliefs and Experiences
  • Programme Values
  • Unconscious Bias
  • Understanding Bias, Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
  • The Equality Act 2010 and its Key Elements
  • How Should I React?
  • Practical Ways to Challenge Discrimination as a Mentor
  • Respectful, Positive Relationships
  • End of Module Survey
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• 4 Boundaries & Confidentiality

  • Training from Mentor on Expectations and Boundaries
  • Boundaries and Expectations

• 5 Safeguarding & Child Protection

  • Online Abuse Awareness Training Session
  • Session 1: Safeguarding & Children's Rights (CP Training for Volunteers)
  • Session 2: Recognising Signs & Symptoms of Abuse (CP Training for Volunteers)
  • Session 3: Responding to concerns (CP Training for Volunteers)
  • Safefuarding Code of Conduct
  • Sample Mentoring Agreement
  • Scenarios
  • Child Protection Disclosure Case Study
  • Goldilocks Quiz

• 6 Communication & Planning Time Together

  • Ready to Use Activities
  • Communication Skills - General & Distance Mentoring
  • Communicating Digitally
  • Active Listening Basics Reflection

• 7 DIME - Digital Mentoring

  • Communication Skills - General and Distance Mentoring

• 8 Mentoring in Practice

  • Activity Ideas - Online and Outside
  • Activity Pack
  • Goal Setting
  • intandem Film

• 10 Understanding Loss & Change

  • Understanding Loss & Change

• 11 Children's Rights

  • Together Scotland UNCRC General Principles
  • Super Listener Poster
  • 7 Words Poster
  • UNCRC Symbols Poster

• 12 Volunteer Wellbeing

  • Wellbeing Webinar

• 9 Autism Awareness

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • intandem Training on Autism Awareness

Referral Process

• Leaflet for Referrers
• Sample Referral Form (Ypeople)

Supporting Young People & Families

• Health & Wellbeing Resources

  • 5 a Day for Mental Health

  • BLISS

    • Recording of Zoom introduction to BLISS with Bill Zima
    • Introduction to BLISS gratitude materials
    • BLISS lite
    • BLISS - Prompt questions 1
    • BLISS - Prompt Questions 2
    • Impact of BLISS - outcomes

Supporting Mentoring Activity

• Activities for online and outdoors

Ongoing Volunteer Support & Supervision

• Resources coming soon

Family Activities

• Resources coming soon

Reporting for Inspiring Scotland

• Guidance for Quarterly Review
• Quarterly Review Report Template (Jun 2018)

Matching

• Resources coming soon

Evaluation

• Introduction to intandem Evaluation
• Presentation on Logic Model (2017)
• Viewpoint Paper Data Collection Forms (updated Jan 2020)
• Viewpoint Login
• Viewpoint Learning Hub

• Viewpoint Guidance

  • A guide for coordinators on entering objectives
  • Viewpoint setting up users and entering evaluation data
  • Viewpoint supporting your mentee in self-assessment questionnaire

Facilitating Online Training

• What's Different Online

  • Communicating Online
  • TECHNOLOGY!

• Planning Interactive Online Sessions

  • Top Tips (General)
  • Length and timing of sessions

• Supporting Volunteers Online

  • Onboarding Volunteers Who Might Need Extra Help
  • 'When Things Go Wrong'-Protocol

• Assessing Risk & Keeping Volunteers Safe

  • DigiSafe Toolkit (Catalyst)
  • Risks Involved in Using Video Calls
  • Mitigating Risks
  • Ensuring Software Security

• Delivering Interactive Online Sessions

  • Communicating Virtually (Acting for Change recap)
  • Virtual Presenting One-Pager (Acting for Change)
  • Good practice in running meetings online

• Videoconferencing Basics

  • Getting started - Videoconferencing (resources)
  • Digital Unite's No-Nonsense Guide to Hosting Zoom Meetings
  • The Difference between Zoom 'Meeting' and 'Webinar'

• Zoom - Interactive Features

  • Using Breakout Rooms
  • Using the Chat Function
  • Using Polls
  • Playing Video/Audio
  • Using the Whiteboard, Annotations & Nonverbal Feedback

• Human Connection Online

  • Fostering Human Connection Online
  • Doing better than "How are you?"
  • Building and Sustaining Relationships Online (YouthLink workshop)
  • 40 Methods to Support Human Connection in Digital Services (Deepr)
  • EQ Ice Breaker (shared by Terri)