Iowa Mentoring Partnership October Newsletter

OCTOBER 2017

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IMP QUARTERLY REPORT

The Quarter 1 report is available here. Iowa Mentoring Partnership certified programs must complete their report by October 31st as a condition of certification. Your data and feedback is appreciated.

NATIONAL MENTORING SURVEY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND FULL REPORT

The IMP has been sharing Iowa results from the 2016 National Mentoring Survey, which explored trends in programming, gaps in services, and the challenges youth mentoring programs face. Examining Youth Mentoring Services Across America full report and executive summary can be downloaded in PDF form here.

PEER SHARE CALL

National Quality Mentoring System and IMP Certification
Thursday, October 12, 2pm

Mentoring is about more than helping as many kids as possible. Evidence shows that quality mentoring practices are a determining factor in achieving positive youth outcomes. Through the National Quality Mentoring System (NQMS), the IMP supports programs in implementing a continuous quality improvement process to improve program practices over time. THIS SYSTEM WILL SOON REPLACE THE CURRENT IMP CERTIFICATION PROCESS. Learn more about how to engage in the process on this call.

Call info
If your agency does not have a Skype BUSINESS license, join the call through the Skype Web App.

Join Skype Meeting Use this only if you have a Skype BUSINESS license

You may also join by phone, but that limits your participation:
1 (515) 348-6300, access code: 78354418
Conference ID: 78354418 (same as access code above)

REGISTER BY OCT 3

The October 24-25 conference includes mentoring-specific workshops including topics such as Difficult Conversations with Youth, Engaging Families, Connections Matter, Growth Mindset and Youth-Initiated Mentoring.

Register now! One registration at no cost to IMP certified programs.
Connect with the conference on the website and facebook page.

Mentoring in RURAL Communities
Wednesday, Nov 1, 1:00 pm

This webinar builds on the Mentoring in Rural Communities: Traveling the Distance to Facilitate Your Program training from the National Mentoring Resource Center in May 2016 to provide concrete strategies to address the many challenges faced by rural mentoring programs.
Register here at no cost by OCT 27th.

Authentic Youth Engagement
Practical Ideas and Approaches for Iowa Substance Abuse Prevention staff

Tuesday, October 10, 10:00am

This webinar will explore how adults can authentically engage youth and build lasting partnerships to benefit communities. We will discuss the benefits of authentic youth engagement, opportunities to engage youth throughout each step of the Strategic Prevention Framework and ways to overcome common challenges. Register

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CALENDAR

Oct 1 IMP Quarterly report opens

Oct 3 Deadline for Iowa Nonprofit Summit registration

Oct 12 IMP Peer Share National Quality Mentoring System and IMP Certification, 2 pm

OCT 19 MENTOR webinar, noon

OCT 24-25 Iowa Nonprofit Summit, Altoona

Oct 31 IMP Quarterly report due

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

IOWA IMPACT AFTER SCHOOL CONFERENCE
Please consider presenting on mentoring as a quality out-of-school time program.
The conference is in April, 2018. Submissions to present are due Nov 17th and are available here.

RESOURCES

Measurement Guidance Toolkit Updates

Last November, the National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC) introduced the Measurement Guidance Toolkit, which provides recommended instruments for measuring key youth outcomes. Since then, the NMRC Research Board has been working on enhancements to the toolkit and 10 new measures have been included.

Check out the updated Toolkit here, and read this related blog post by about measuring youth resilience.

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Tools to Strengthen Match Support and Closure

A growing body of research suggests that providing appropriate support for matches, including during the closure process, is a major challenge for youth mentoring programs. Tools to help programs give matches the support they need to thrive and last as well as the Study to Analyze Relationships (STAR) led by Drs. Tom Keller and Renee Spencer are available here

Volunteer Iowa Email Reminder

This is a 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