Summary You become an important role model in a young person’s life while gaining valuable leadership abilities, relevant skills and access to support and opportunities that can help you achieve your academic, qualified and personal goals.

Location

Address 5734 Yonge Street

Toronto, Ontario M2M 4E7

When

Opportunity Type

Ongoing - Start Anytime

Schedule

Asap

About This Opportunity Who are the youth you will mentor? YAY matches driven volunteer youth mentors with younger youth ages 6 to 15 in Toronto and York Region in one-to-one peer mentoring relationships. We match in your neighborhood.

YAY provides in-depth training, ongoing monitoring, access to weekly activities and 24/7 emergency support to help you both grow and succeed.

Mentor Time Commitment We ask youth mentors to dedicate 10 hours each month for at least 1 year to support their mentee on a weekly basis, both in-person and virtually.

Youth volunteers must complete our screening process before being matched with a mentee. This includes a brief interview, reference check and vulnerable sector screening. We also ask volunteers to commit 5 hours to complete mandatory virtual training. Our screening and training process is critical for success, providing a solid foundation for a meaningful volunteer experience, strong mentoring relationship and powerful dual impact for you and your mentee.

Benefits

- Gain Valuable experience, build a better Resume and have more references
- Get trained, Get a certificate, Get Scholarship Opportunities
- Make a concrete difference, Figure out what you want to do in the future
- Attend free events and get tickets to: Raptors, Blue Jays,



Argos and Maple Leaf games, Wonderland, Bowling and much more

Volunteer Requirements Whether you meet these requirements or not, we encourage you to share your interest in us. You may still be a fit for a different opportunity with our organization.
- Proof of Covid Vaccination
- Willing to undergo a background or police records check
- Able to meet weekly for a whole year
- 10 hours a month
- Between the age of 16-29

Causes Children & Youth Community & Social Services Employment, Consulting, Mentoring, & Training First Nations & Indigenous People Healthcare, Medical, & Wellness Mental Health & Crisis Support Newcomer & Refugee Services Special Education & Special Needs Virtual-Online Volunteering

Skills &

• Experience Community Development &

- Outreach Skills Disaster &
- Emergency Service Skills Life Coaching Abuse &
- Violence Prevention Case Work / Management Counselling / Mental Health Skills Employment Counselling Newcomer Support Services Career Counseling / Coaching Child Care Program Development &
- Evaluation Group Facilitation Crisis Intervention Skills Special Needs Teaching/Assisting Teacher assistant Tutoring Sports Coaching Mentoring Education &
- Schooling Other English as a Secondary Language (ESL) Teaching Coaching Cross-cultural Communication Sign Language Interpretation ESL Teaching Translation &
- Interpretation

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