MENTORING

Our mentoring services ignite potential through personalised guidance and transformative support, ensuring young people have the support required to achieve their goals.

What it does for them...

At home:

Healthier relationships and lifestyle choices
Enhanced self-esteem and self-confidence
Improved behaviour at home and in the community
Positive relationships with family and community
Improved interpersonal skills
Reduced aggression and anti-social acts
Improved mental health

What is mentoring?

At school:

Increased educational engagement
Increased attendance
Increased future aspirations for education and employment
Stronger relationships with adults and peers
Better academic progress
Improved school attendance
Positive attitudes towards school and learning

How we do it...

A typical session with Innovate is between 2 to 3 hours in length but can be longer.
The young person will be assigned a Youth Mentor, who will collect the young person either from home or school.
During sessions, mentors will spend time building a professional relationship and exploring desired outcomes for the young person.
The session may include physical, crafting, or social activities based on a plan created after the Home Visit, designed to gather information about the young person’s interests to maximize engagement.
When appropriate, the young person will have the chance to interact with peers, participate in a variety of activities, and complete tasks that lead to certification.
At the end of the session, the young person will then be returned to home or school.

What you will receive...

Session reports containing the following:
- Attendance status for the session
- Up to three objectives for staff to achieve and report back on
- Learning outcomes during the session
Weekly bespoke schedules for the young person, including times, dates, events and assigned mentor name, so your young person will know who to expect.
Appropriate staff attendance at young people's professional meetings and reviews.
Collaboration with other provisions and services connected to the young person.
Alerts for consecutively missed sessions.
Assistance and support transitioning back into school or further education.
Termly YPP, Young Person’s Plan for the upcoming term.

What you should expect from your provider...

At Innovate Dorset Ltd, we are proud to uphold the highest standards in safeguarding, legal compliance, and professional integrity across all our services.

We are fully compliant with IR35 legislation.

We directly employ all individuals representing Innovate Dorset; we do not subcontract to external providers or individuals who are not listed on the local authority’s approved framework of registered services.

This ensures transparency, accountability, and consistency in the quality of care and support we provide.

All staff working with children and young people have passed enhanced DBS checks and received appropriate safeguarding training.

All Innovate staff have received training in GDPR and Data Protection that is appropriate to their work.

Staff using their own vehicles for work, have appropriate business insurance and MOT certificates for their vehicle.

Sources:

Benefits of Mentoring for Young People - Youth.gov. https://youth.gov/youth-topics/mentoring/benefits-mentoring-young-people.
The Benefits of Youth Mentoring. https://www.mentoring.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Benefits-of-Youth-Mentoring-Talking-Points-October-2023-Update.pdf.
Mentoring - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/programs/mentoring.
Mentoring - Youth.gov. https://youth.gov/youth-topics/mentoring.
Mentoring Impact. Connect with a Young Person | Mentor. https://www.mentoring.org/mentoring-impact/.