Peer Mentoring Guidelines for Mentors and Recipients
Guidelines for Mentors and Recipients
- Mentors are volunteering their time, and respect for that time is a very important component of the mentoring relationship.
- Both parties in the relationship accept that it is a privileged one, and they agree to respect issues of privacy and confidentiality.
- Both parties agree that the mentor’s role is advisory, and that mentors do not provide any tangible services. For example: a mentor will review a grant application and comment on it; a mentor will not write it.
- When Safe Communities Canada makes a match, the mentor will initiate the contact.
- At the outset, both parties need to define their working relationship as follows:
- Establish an open understanding of the mentor’s commitment of time to the relationship.
- Agree on the most effective means of communication – email, mail or telephone.
- If mentors require clearance from their Board of Directors, they should inform Safe Communities Canada when they apply. We will then be able structure additional time for appropriate clearance processes before we initiate a match.
- If either party feels that the relationship should end, then it is over.
- Upon completion, both parties will complete an evaluation for Safe Communities Canada.
