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Launching
June, 2023
Members
Mentoring Program
Victoria’s peak body in child and family services, is establishing an inaugural members mentoring program.
Expression of Interest Now Open!
Secure your place as a mentor or mentee in 2023
Member-Based Mentoring (MBM)
This mentoring stream will be exclusively available to our members only working across the child the family services sector.
This is program is funded by the centre and is designed to build leadership capacity of current and next generation leaders across child and family services.
Program Dates
Session
Date
Venue
- Applications Open
- May 1
- Program Information Session
- 9 May
- Online
- Program Launch
- 20 June
- Online
- Program Commences
- Program Close
- 9 April 2024
- Online
Developing Child and Family Services Leadership
Mentorship is a developmental relationship in which one person, usually more experienced or senior, takes time to assist the career, professional or personal development of someone else, who is known as a mentee.
Mentoring is most often a one-on-one relationship but is sometimes done in groups.
A mentoring relationship is one that is built on trust, in which there is an exchange of knowledge, experience and goodwill.
Why Mentoring?
ACT
As a source of Information and insight regarding career development or strategies for achieving professional goals
RECOMMEND
Possible resources to improve specific skills Help the mentee solve professional challenges in their working life
SOLVE
Support the mentee solve professional challenges in their working life
PROFESSIONAL
share professional wisdom on ethics and workplace related options for how these may be addressed
Mentor Benefits
Leadership
Elevate membership leadership capacity. Expanding talent pool to take on leadership roles within the association
STRENGTHEN
Services as a whole, building leadership capabilities that benefit the sector’s businesses, educational and government bodies.
PREPARE
Help to prepare another generation of leaders
Transform
Create learning environments and skills, in turn developing transformational leadership capacity
