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Welcome to the ACE Mentor Program’s New Mentor Training Page. Research from the youth mentoring field underscores that well-designed mentor training is critical: it ensures that mentors enter the relationship well prepared, with clear expectations and foundational skills. The trainings on this page will provide you with the tools, resources, and strategies to make a meaningful impact in the lives of ACE students. Whether you are mentoring for the first time or bringing years of professional experience, your role is vital in inspiring the next generation of leaders in the design and construction industry.
ACE New Mentor Training
New to ACE Mentoring or haven’t joined one of our trainings yet? Join our new mentor training to learn all about how to be the best ACE mentor possible. Participants will learn the stages of the mentoring relationship, tools for success, overcoming common challenges and developing cultural humility.
Building Resilence in Youth
National Webinar
Mentors will learn about resilience and growth mindset, their importance in ACE Mentoring, and how to incorporate these concepts into ACE sessions to maximize student success.
Managing Expectations in ACE Mentoring
National Webinar
Mentors will learn about youth development, generational differences and educational inequities to help manage expectations and create meaningful and achievable goals with ACE participants and teams.
Building Strong Support for ACE Students
National Webinar
Learn how to support ACE students as they build social capital and an ACE network beyond ACE sessions!
Building a Better Mentor Series - Goal Setting in ACE
Participants will learn how to support ACE students and teams in setting and pursuing goals. We will review the importance of goal development, the positive impact it can have on the ACE experience, strategies for success and how to provide guidance if goals aren’t met.
ACE Mentor Training: Building Better ACE Relationships
National Webinar
Participants will learn effective strategies to build meaningful and quality relationships with ACE students. Topics will include impactful mentoring strategies to use when engaging with ACE students,
an overview of trauma-informed youth development, and building developmental relationships.
Tips from Teachers
Joint his training to hear from a panel of teachers as they give some tips from the trenches to put to use in ACE mentor sessions. Participants will learn about effective strategies to maximize student engagement, tips for managing various student behaviors, and how to develop meaningful partnerships with teachers to maximize ACE’s impact.
Mentoring Neurodivergent Learners
Join us to learn how to better mentor and support neurodivergent learners in ACE programming. Topics will include understanding the facets of neurodiversity, strength based approaches and strategies to support learning and tips on creating inclusive environments for ACE participants.
ACE in the Virtual Space
Tips for successful virtual sessions.
How to Help ACE students build Social Capital and Networks
Through this training, featuring SMPS, gain strategies to support ACE students in expanding their professional connections along with practical tips and techniques to pass to students, helping them network effectively and build lasting relationships to support their post-secondary plans.