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What it is
- What mentoring and befriending areWhat mentoring and befriending are, and how they differ
- What mentoring isA definition that survives contact with practice
- What befriending isWhat befriending is, and why it is not just company
- Mentoring or befriendingWhich one does the person in front of you need?
- Mentoring vs coachingThe real difference, not the slogan
- What peer mentoring isWhen the mentor is not the senior one
- What a buddy scheme isThe lightest form, and where it stops working
- Where mentoring and befriending stopCounselling, advocacy, care and social work
Running a scheme
- Running a mentoring or befriending schemeHow a mentoring or befriending scheme is actually run
- Designing a scheme, starting with whether to run onePurpose, dose, duration and the honest question first
- Recruiting volunteersRecruiting volunteers for a mentoring or befriending scheme
- Screening volunteers, and what a DBS check does not tell youDBS checks for volunteers, references and safer recruitment
- Training volunteers before the first matchWhat the induction has to cover
- Matching a mentor and a menteeHow pairs are actually made, and what to match on
- Supervision, support and what gets written downSupervising volunteers, and the records a scheme keeps
- Safeguarding a scheme where volunteers work aloneSafeguarding and lone working in a volunteer visiting scheme
- When it goes wrongBreakdown, dependency, drift and complaint
- Ending wellEnding a mentoring or befriending relationship well
- Evaluation: what to measure in a mentoring schemeWhat to measure when the outcome is a relationship
- What a scheme costsWhat a mentoring or befriending scheme costs to run
- Quality standards, and what happened to the one this sector hadQuality standards for mentoring and befriending schemes
Where it is used
- Where mentoring and befriending are usedWhere mentoring and befriending are used, and how each setting changes them
- Mentoring young peopleWhat it can and cannot do for a young person
- Mentoring in schools and colleges
- Befriending older peopleThe largest befriending field in the UK
- Mentoring at workSchemes inside an employer
- Befriending, health and social prescribingBefriending in health settings and social prescribing
- Befriending refugees and new arrivals
Volunteering
- Volunteering as a mentor or befriender
- How to become a mentor or befrienderHow to become a mentor or befriender in the UK
- What a good mentor doesWhat a good mentor does, and the lines they hold
- Mentoring training and coursesMentoring training and courses in the UK
- What the scheme owes youInduction, expenses, insurance, supervision
Finding a service
- Finding a befriending or mentoring serviceFinding a befriending or mentoring service in the UK
- Who runs befriending servicesWho runs befriending services in the UK
- Telephone and online befriending
- Referring someone elseReferring someone to a befriending or mentoring scheme
- What to expectWhat to expect from a befriending or mentoring service