Iowa Mentoring Partnership July Newsletter

JULY 2017

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QUARTERLY REPORT

Iowa Mentoring Partnership certified programs must complete their Quarter 4 report by July 31st. The survey is available here. Your data and feedback is appreciated.

PEER SHARE CALL

Thursday, July 13, 2 pm
Growth Mindset
Experience grow mindset learning and navigate the online resources available on the Mentor Resource Library. Growth Mindset Toolkit
Presenter: Allyson Horne, TeamMates Mentoring Program
Read more about Allyson's personal experience with building a growth mindset.

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Building Organizational Resiliency

The National Victim Assistance Academy is offering training for organizations that help clients face difficult issues such as child abuse, human trafficking, and interpersonal violence.. To support and maintain healthy perspectives among staff and volunteers, your organization must create an environment that encourages resiliency. This training will cover the core elements of resiliency, present an organizational resiliency model, and examine how to help build resiliency within your organization. The training will take place over the course of 3 weeks and includes two webinars, each about 75 minutes. If you are interested in attending, please complete the application.

Great Content on Y4Y!

You 4 Youth is a free online professional development site that is designed to support 21CCLC program staff, but is a valuable tool for any afterschool professional looking to build their skills! Click here to register.

Nominations Open for 2017 Iowa Nonprofit Awards

Deadline: July 31

The purpose of the Iowa Nonprofit Awards is to recognize the exceptional practices, achievements, and impact of nonprofit organizations and professionals, philanthropic organizations, national service and volunteer programs, and local collaborations for their efforts to address community challenges.

Nonprofit leaders, volunteer management professionals, and members of the public are invited to nominate the professional staff and volunteers who serve Iowans in countless ways. Award winners will be recognized during the Iowa Nonprofit Summit to be held Oct. 24-25 in Altoona, Iowa.
Nomination forms available here: https://volunteeriowa.org/iowa-nonprofit-awards

MENTORING PROGRAM WINS EMPLOYER VOLUNTEER CHALLENGE

BBBS of NE Iowa won Volunteer Iowa's Give Back Iowa Challenge, logging the most volunteer hours per employee in the small employer category. "The winners of the Give Back Iowa Challenge demonstrate the impact employers have on improving our communities through service," stated Adam Lounsbury, Volunteer Iowa's Executive Director.
Thanks to all programs that participated. Join Volunteer Iowa's email list to receive information about next year's challenge and other related news.

LANEE AND EMMA

Hoping to see Emma open up to other children in the mentoring program, Emma encouraged her to try new things. By the end of the year, Lanee was inviting other kids whose mentors hadn’t shown up or who didn’t have a mentor to join her and Emma in games and activities. “She’s very welcoming and inclusive and just really nice to the kids,” Emma tells me. “Even if they don’t play well or aren’t very nice, she’s nice to them.”
Read more here.

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CALENDAR

July 13, 2pm
IMP Peer Share: GROWTH MINDSET
Register

July 20, Noon
MENTOR Webinar: SUPPORTING MENTORS & MENTEES in the FACE of CHALLENGES
Register

July 20, 11 am
IMP Professional Development: SAFE (Screening Applicants for Effectiveness)
Bedell Family YMCA, Spirit Lake

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Monthly Advocacy Tip:
Have you contacted local leaders, such as your mayor, legislators, Board of Education members to educate them on the power of mentoring? Now is a great time to reach out and start building a partnership with someone who has the power and heart to help you recruit mentors and elevate your program's impact on the community. Use our free toolkit provided online for tips.

Monthly Marketing Tip: July is In Real Life Workplace Mentoring and Career Development Month.Sample social media posts:
*Research shows that mentoring relationships help prepare and equip young people for the workforce. Strengthen the workforce and become a #mentorIRL
*$4,100: average annual cost to state and federal governments in foregone tax revenue and paid social support benefits for one unemployed young adult. Fight high unemployment rates amongst young adults by becoming a #mentorIRL
For more resources, please use our free marketing toolkit provided online!

SAVE THE DATE

OCT 24- 25, Altoona, IA

Mentoring Track featuring Jim Conway from SEARCH Institute on Engaging Families.
Information updated regularly on the conference website and facebook page.

IMP DATA COLLECTION

Fall 2017, the IMP is launching a four question pre/post survey for all programs to administer with their mentees. This recommended instrument from the National Mentoring Resource Center for measuring key youth outcomes will provide us with a common set of measures from all IMP programs across the state. This data is a key step in telling the impact story of mentoring as a collective movement in Iowa. Look for further information in your inbox during the week of July 3rd or contact Mary at 515-725-3187 or mary.sheka@iowaeda.com for more information.

NATIONAL NEWS and RESOURCES

Bill to Support Mentoring Youth in Foster Care

Future of Mentoring Infographic

Volunteer Iowa Email Reminder

This is an important reminder that our old email addresses with the domain “@iowa.gov” (for example, mary.sheka@iowa.gov) were terminated on June 30, 2017. Messages sent to our old emails will not be forwarded. If you have not already updated your address book/contact information for us, please do so. The new email format we have is firstname.lastname@iowaeda.com. This also includes our general email inboxes:

mentor@iowaeda.com
icvs@iowaeda.com