What We Do
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Doing the mentoring with my young person gave me the push to change jobs. Seeing him change into someone different within a couple of months was the best kind of job satisfaction I could have.
Kerry, mentor, Talented Futures Portsmouth
Mentoring
Mentoring has proved to be an effective way
of working with young people whose needs may be fairly diverse. As such, Rainer
provides mentors for young people at risk
of offending, care leavers, those leaving custody or young people looking for opportunities in respect of education,
training or employment.
The mentoring relationship generally consists of
a 1:1 match whereby the mentor and mentee meet in the community with the aim of offering support and guidance around the young person's goals or aspirations. Prospective volunteers will receive initial and ongoing training covering aspects such as boundaries, confidentiality and agency procedures. Volunteers have the opportunity to work towards a nationally recognised qualification as part of their role. In addition, supervision and support is provided alongside all expenses. Rainer also offers extensive training, accreditation and consultancy services to external agencies - click here for more information.
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Peer mentoring
Leaving care peer mentors
(from left to right) Darren Robinson, Rachel Casey, Nick Russell, Louise Randel, with the Community Resource Officer Alison King (far right), and Jessamy Blandford from Quest International (front centre).
"I mentor to give something back to the community" - Nick Russell, peer mentor, Kent 16+
In addition to recruiting adults to work with young people, Rainer have introduced a range of peer mentoring initiatives. This has included work with care leavers, refugees and asylum seekers and peer mentoring in schools. This specialist area of work has required adaptation and revision of the existing mentor training programme. For those young people over 18 who are recruited to be peer mentors, there is still the opportunity for acquiring BTEC accreditation. This programme has also been sold externally in the London Borough of Haringey. We are currently in the process of monitoring and evaluating our peer mentoring initiatives to ensure that they meet all the standards of our other mentoring services. For more information, contact the Volunteer Unit at Rainer.
