BBBSA Learning Exchange
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands provides a range of engaging training sessions below for current mentors through the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Learning Exchange. The Learning Exchange is a free service for mentors looking for webinars and training opportunities. Every active mentor in our program is encouraged to complete new trainings. These video-based trainings are designed to guide, support, and equip you with valuable insights to help you offer the best possible mentorship to your youth.
Explore the available training options below. To get started with any of the sessions, simply reach out to your Match Support Specialist.
Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care for Volunteers
Description:
Welcome to Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care for Volunteers. In this training, we will define trauma and take a look at its potential long-term effect on a child's development. It also provides helpful tips on how to support your Little if they have experienced trauma.
Child & Youth Development
Description:
This Child and Youth Development course is created for Bigs and covers: --Important processes and benchmarks in child and youth development --Developmental differences and their impact on children and youth --Strategies for supporting your Little's healthy development.
LGBTQIA2S+ Awareness
Description:
This curriculum will provide guidance and best practices when working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. This video series provides an overview of terms and definitions, explores risks faced and ways mentoring can help protect youth against these risks, discusses the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ youth, and provides practical tips and strategies when working with LGBTQ youth to help create a safe and supportive mentoring relationship.
The Difference Between Being "Not Racist" and Antiracist
Description:
There is no such thing as being "not racist," says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. In this vital conversation, he defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs. Learn how you can actively use this awareness to uproot injustice and inequality in the world -- and replace it with love. (This virtual interview, hosted by TED's current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and speaker development curator Cloe Shasha, was recorded June 9, 2020.)
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Becoming a Better Mentor
MENTOR’s Becoming a Better Mentor: Strategies to Be There for Young People is a free resource written by experts in the field to benefit any adult looking to support young people. Full of real-world advice and evidence-based strategies, it provides mentors with tangible strategies to “be there” for young people in their various life journeys and teaches them about the core skills, key principles, and critical practices of mentoring, such as:
- Mindsets and attitudes that lay the foundation for a strong mentoring relationship;
- Basic information about youth development and typical mentoring relationship cycles;
- Critical skills and competencies to grow and refine to meet the needs of youth.
Get started at https://www.mentoring.org/resource/becoming-a-better-mentor/
