eMentoring

On Monday, Sept 12, the eMentoring program held a community lead orientation at our eHealth office in Vancouver. This was a great opportunity for all of our awesome community leads to meet and share their experiences with one another. Aboriginal eMentoring BC is a province wide program and there are 5 community leads located in […]

The eMentoring team has partnered with the Indigenous Leadership Development Institute to develop an online Aboriginal Cultural Awareness course that all eMentors will take before they are paired with their mentees. The course is self-paced and based on previous knowledge of Aboriginal people in Canada. It will take between 1-4 hours and consists of the following four […]

  We have begun interviewing our potential mentors and have met a lot of amazing people! It’s interesting to see the diversity of students this program has attracted. We have many applicants and in order to interview them all in a timely fashion we have designed a custom interview structure where interviewees are asked a […]

  Throughout the summer, the eMentoring team has been engaged in several mentee recruitment activities. The team’s first stop was with the UBC Summer Science Camp. Talk about a motivated group of kids! Nahannee, our Urban Project Lead, was able to sit down with them during one of their lunch breaks and chat about the […]

After a few wrong turns and semi-correct Google driving directions, we managed to make all our scheduled meetings in the Surrey School District! Each school had very interesting and important questions about eMentoring such as how mentors and mentees would be paired, how the conversations would be monitored and would students receive any credit for […]

  Another full but successful trip!  It’s amazing how much you can accomplish in two days and eight meetings.  Special thanks to Johanna Sam from UBC-O who helped us accomplish so much.  The goals of this trip were to start a plan on how to recruit mentors from UBC-O and further develop our partnership with […]

Want to help Aboriginal youth become excited about learning and school? Want to be a role model and make a positive impact on the lives of youth? Want to gain volunteer experience and enhance your knowledge of Aboriginal history and culture? Then apply to be an online mentor. We are currently looking for UBC students from […]

We are excited to announce that the winning entry for the eMentoring logo contest was drawn by Jesse Tobacco from Boston Bar Secondary School. Jesse drew a beautiful logo with many elements representative of Aboriginal culture. The concept of her logo is about traditional community and each of the elements in her logo represents a […]

  We had a chance to visit the beautiful Kootenays on May 22-25.  Overall, a really productive trip! Went into it thinking we weren’t organized enough and hadn’t planned enough meetings.  But as it turned out we got more accomplished than we imagined.  The main purpose of our trip was to meet with members of […]

On May 9th and 10th, eMentoring visited a number of schools attended by Adam’s Lake Band students in Salmon Arm and Chase.  There was also an information session for Adam’s Lake Band Community Members to discuss the question, “What is eMentoring?”  Over the two day visit, the eMentoring team travelled to Shuswap Middle School, Salmon […]