How Does Mentoring Work?

MENTOR/MENTEE CANADA TURNS THE TIDE FOLLOWING THE SHADOW PANDEMICS - OPIOID OVERDOSE, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AND ISOLATION/HOMELESSNESS.

IT TAKES 1 NOT 100.

Community organization and outreach presence of Peer Supporters speed connections and greater access to healthcare and best treatment options; access safer housing and provide ongoing Peer Support to more community services and resources.

Through every harm reduction door, at every safe injection site, on crisis telephone lines, in every emergency unit - an opportunity to exit through a different door into a supportive Peer community through Peer Support.

A Peer Supporter often inspires Peers to become trained Peer Supporters themselves helping to end homelessness from within the homeless community.

HOW CAN PEER SUPPORTERS AND MENTORING SPEED CLIENT SUCCESS AND HELP CLOSE THE GAPS IN CLIENT RECOVERY?

Peer Support/Peer Mentoring is an evidence-based intervention and provides a continuum of deeply trauma informed, person-centred care for an individual. Peer Supporters are experienced navigators of current best services and resources. We support experiences with the healthcare system which are important factors in obtaining life changing care.

We are an innovative partnership between drop in, shelter, housing and healthcare sectors.

We support income security, poverty reduction, healthcare promotion and recovery. We save lives from overdose.

We can support community and social integration

We support/prevent individuals being discharged from mainstream systems.

We support sustained employment, tenancy, self-care, ongoing harm reduction, mental health recovery, and speed housing procurement, community leadership and connections to new positive relationships essential for well being - with purpose and belonging.

HOW IS PEER SUPPORT A COMPLIMENT TO COUNSELLING AND CASE MANAGEMENT?

Peer Support is an interdependent part of the community.  Peer Supporters and Mentors share specifics of who and where they received support from in the community.  We connect our Peer to resources, services and supports through strategic, skilled sharing to benefit our Peer and to model hope and what is possible in recovery.  Peer Supporters show that they are problem solvers as proactive in recovery, and inspire their Peer to go away with that hope and possibility - to make it their own.  

FROM VULNERABLE TO SUCCESSFUL

A Peer Supporter’s most powerful tool is their story of recovery, making hope and attainment of goals real for their Peer. Peer Supporters describe staying on the path of recovery, and of having more goals for the future. The Peer Supporters story of recovery shows the way forward from overwhelming despair, giving up - to someone who believed in them, who asked about their goals, and helped them see glimpses of their future situation after situation, individual after individual to believe in their own dreams, and see them come true.

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Just as a mentoring relationship in a student or professional life creates opportunity, inspires best outcomes, and works alongside a Mentee’s journey to grow and flourish, a Mentor for the most vulnerable is an equal opportunity to do the same.

Peer Support and Peer Mentoring create a healthier, equally advantaged society #EqualMentoring

Become a Peer Support Organization through onboarding Peers trained from Mentor/Mentee Canada. Become a trained Peer Supporter, or Peer Team Supervisor here. Together we can reduce high tax costs as much as high costs to lives lost from the social determinants of health.

Mentees are matched with quality trained Mentors.

A Mentor is someone who helps another person (the Mentee), to achieve a set of self-determined goals. Focusing on the specific needs of the individual Mentee, they provide friendly support and advice, and help the Mentee with a significant transition in their lives. A good mentoring relationship is voluntary and relaxed, with both parties entering into the relationship willingly.

A Mentor is a protective person who provides hope, allyship, in a strength based approach to goal attainment listening to what Mentees need and want.