MECA Youth Mentoring Program

The MECA Youth Mentoring Program involves providing life skills mentoring and early intervention activities to youth at high risk to prevent them from engaging in criminal activity or anti-social behaviour. The program is delivered by Mount Druitt Ethnic Communities Agency in collaboration with partner organisations including, Western Sydney University, TAFE NSW, Headspace and Global Skills. 

The role

You will be a MECA Youth Mentor who will be expected to attend and facilitate mentoring sessions on Tuesdays throughout Term 3 and 4 of the 2022 school year. Facilitation involves you working within a team to take turns presenting the weekly topic. Facilitation also requires you to mentor an assigned small group of youth, engaging them in conversations based on the weekly topic and the planned activities.

How to apply

More information about requirements, dates, times, and locations for this opportunity can be found on InPlace. Students can also apply to any available opportunity directly through InPlace. For information and tools on how to use InPlace, please refer to 'Applying with InPlace' module in the Community Engagement Canvas Course.

Before applying for an opportunity please ensure:

• You understand and will follow any COVID-safe practices as determined by ACU, the organisation offering this opportunity or the public health orders of your state.
• You are willing to undertake further processing as required and acknowledge that your ACU email address and the information you provide in your application will be shared with the organisation that offers this opportunity. The organisation will keep your personal information confidential.
• You have read the 'Safety and Wellbeing' module in the Community Engagement course.

Opportunities are available in line with the needs of our community partners. If this opportunity is not listed in InPlace it may not be open, it may be at capacity, or you may not be eligible.

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Contact

If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact ACU Engagement.
acuengagement@acu.edu.au