Mentoring & Befriending Consultancy
Housing Justice have piloted and run mentoring and befriending projects working with formerly homeless clients for over two years. We are able to offer you bespoke mentoring and befriending consultancies. An out line of what can be covered is detailed below:
- Setting up your own mentoring and/or befriending project working with homeless or formerly homeless clients (1 day – or reduced tailored to your needs)
Components:
Over view of Housing Justice’s learning from our mentoring project evaluations
Goal and out come setting for your project
Volunteer role description
Mentor-mentee agreement; Boundaries
Client referral, assessment and goal setting using out come star
Monitoring and evaluation
Matching, supporting volunteers and clients, endings
- Setting up and running your volunteer training for your mentoring and/ or befriending project working with homeless or vulnerably housed people (1 day – or reduced tailored to your needs)
We will work with you to help you plan a volunteer mentor / befriender training day. This will include helping you think through the information that you want to convey and how to train in a participatory and fun way.
Additional options to this consultancy are:
Supporting you to create a volunteers handbook
Co facilitating your first volunteer training with you
With either consultancy you will be given a free copy of our Mentoring and Befriending in Shelters Toolkit.
