Block A will take place on Wednesday the 18th of March from 14:30h to 16:00h.
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This workshop will present the results of two researches on youth mentoring.
Lonneke A. L. de Meijer from The Netherlands will present Mentoring Urban Talent: Impact of a Mentoring Program for Talented Secondary School Youth and they will share results about interesting trends in self‐efficacy and motivation throughout the school year.
Gusta Tavecchio, also from The Netherlands, Erasmus University Rotterdam, will talk about Retaining Urban Talent. Reasons of downgrading of underrepresented students in secondary education and supporting them by Adequate Mentoring Strategies.
LANGUAGE: English
The present workshop aims at sharing some considerations to understand the meaning of adopting a Human Rights-based approach to social mentoring as an ethical and practical safeguard. This approach assumes that HHRR instruments can be used as analytical, operational and methodological tools in any activity with social implications that involves persons, citizens, young people, children.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Methodologies and Ethics
WHO? Alba Pi & Júlia Pàmies
Participants in our workshop will have the opportunity to explore a case study based on our program, Take Back the Halls: Ending Violence in Relationships and Schools, in which college student mentors facilitate a dating violence, community activism program with high school students in urban, low-income communities of color.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Scientific
THEME FIELD: Research-practice
WHO? Beth S. Catlett, Bernadette Sánchez, & Lidia Y. Monjaras-Gaytan
EduGrow aims to propel children from vulnerable, lower-income families towards social mobility, focusing on five domains–aspirations, character, education, financial values, and relational skills. At its core is the guidance and support provided by trained volunteer mentors as the children’s trusted friends and role models.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Socio-cultural diversity
WHO? Delia Pak & Justina Quek
Intentionally bringing creativity into mentoring relationships and programs can help build connections between mentors and mentees, especially when there are socio-cultural differences, thus contributing to better outcomes for mentees. This interactive workshop will highlight three key strategies from practice and research perspectives of a 26-year photography-based mentoring program: enhancing mutual learning, developing shared interests, and building upon the benefits of creativity from a neurodevelopmental lens.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Research-practice
WHO? Sarah Kremer & Erik Auerbach
The APPlying Mentoring Project, conducted across several sites in the Basque and Catalonian regions of Spain, investigated the potential and limitations of mentoring for fostering social inclusion for immigrant and refugee youth. Preliminary findings indicate important gains for participating youth in the classroom, socially, and with respect to support of gender equity.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Scientific
THEME FIELD: Socio-cultural diversity
WHO? Justin Preston & Òscar Prieto-Flores
Current legislative framework on gender-based violence in Catalonia and the specialised care system are one of our country’s greatest successes in recent years. Institutions have now professionalised teams giving attention to women. These intervene from a very in-depth knowledge of violence and its multiple approaches and effects. This is much needed and a great success resulting from a collective effort.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Gender
WHO? Lores López
Canada, France and Spain have mentoring networks where different social organisations and other stakeholders work together to promote mentoring. The stages of development of their networks are different but all of them share the need of being related to others to strengthen the field. They will share key points and tips to build mentoring platforms on a country level.
The Canadian Mentoring Partnership – Stacey Dakin and Véronique Church-Duplessis
French Mentoring Collective – Fiona Soler
Coordinadora de Mentoria Social – Laura Terradas
LANGUAGE: English
This workshop will present 3 different experiences of mentoring programmes that work with refugees in Spain (in Valencia, Bask Country and Catalonia). They will share the main questions to take into account when working with this specific group of population and they will also share activities, tools and best practices of each of the programmes: enTàndem (AFEV València), Mentoría y Refugio (SOS Racismo Guipuzkoa) y Programa Català de Refugi (Generalitat de Catalunya).
LANGUAGE: Spanish
These two presentations explore the theoretical frameworks of mentoring projects through the work done by two researchers from Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Anna Sanchez and Marina Claverías.
LANGUAGE: Spanish