Returning Mentor
Quick Links
As a returning mentor, your experience is invaluable in shaping the next generation of ACE leaders. Research from the youth mentoring field highlights that training is not just for new mentors — continued learning ensures that mentors remain confident, responsive, and effective in fostering meaningful relationships, while strengthening their skills. You can use these trainings to prepare for the year, as a guide whenever you encounter questions and unexpected challenges, or simply want to deepen your impact.
Building Solid Curriculum for ACE Teams Success
This training focuses on helping mentors build a strong ACE curriculum to support student success. Participants will learn about the new curriculum resources and gain strategies to guide student teams, foster collaboration, and enhance engagement through real-world projects. Walk away with practical tools and tips to help your ACE students thrive!
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.
Goal Setting in ACE Mentoring
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.
Building Strong Supports for Youth
National Webinar
Learn how to support ACE students as they build social capital and an ACE network beyond ACE sessions!
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.
How to Help Students Build Social Capital and Networks
Learn about social capital and networking! Through this training, 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.
- Presentation Slides