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Rough & Bronze Diamond Programme
The first entry level of our Community Mentoring Programme is the Rough Diamond level.
Entry is open to all girls and boys of African and Caribbean descent, between the ages of 10 – 15 as at the 31st December in the year the programme starts.
We currently run programmes in both North and South London.
The North London programme has been based in the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham previously but is sometimes based at other venues.
The South London programmes has been based in the South Bank University Centre in Elephant & Castle but is sometimes based at other venues.
Our programmes run every two weeks on a Saturday between 11am – 1pm. We always start and finish on time however, many Diamonds attend.
There are 13 sessions usually beginning in November and concluding in June (roughly in line with the school year).
The sessions include:
- Introduction: We outline the nature of the programme, what we expect from you, what you can expect from us
- Self Identity: We look at the different elements that make up a person’s self–identity (self knowledge, self– image and self–esteem), in particular how high self–esteem gives a solid foundation,whilst low self–esteem can undermine your life.
- Effective Expression: helping our Diamonds to understand how to  communicate in a way that will make them heard, understood and respected
- Peer Relations: looking at the power and influence of peer pressure (both positive and negative) and how to be a leader to your peers
- Family Roles & Responsibilities: examining the different elements of a family and the part each person plays
- Health & Wellbeing: focusing on nutrition, exercise etc
- Goal Setting: understanding goals, how to set proper goals and how to achieve them
- Guns, Knives & Violence: examining the nature of violence, its impact and consequences and how to stand against it
- Drugs & Substance Abuse: understanding the nature of drugs & addiction, its impact, and how to avoid
- Future Forecasting: how to look into the future to predict the path of your life and make the changes now to lead to a positive path
At the end of each session, a ‘Diamond of the Day’ is chosen, usually by their peers and rewarded (usually with a book token).
There are assignments at the end of each session, to be completed before the next session and at the end of each session an ‘Assigment of the Day’ is chosen and rewarded (usually with a book token).
The final session is an Evaluation, when all Diamonds will be assessed to ensure they have taken on the learning objectives of each of the sessions in the programme.
Graduation depends on the achievement of certain criteria. Firstly, the Diamond must attend and participate in at least 75% of the sessions. (ie 10 out of the 13 sessions) Secondly, the Diamond must complete 75% of his/her assignments. Thirdly, the parent/guardian of the Diamond must attend 2 out of the 3 parent sessions.
The graduation ceremony takes place at the conclusion of the programme, usually in July or August.
Mentees, who joined as Rough Diamonds will graduate to become Bronze Diamonds.
All Bronze Diamonds, who wish to go on with the programme will go through the same programme for a second time, but this time with greatly added responsibilities. Apart from displaying greater knowledge of the topics, they will also be expected to assist the mentors with registration, collecting of assignments, choosing ‘Diamonds of the Day’, leading on role plays etc.
Mentees, who were Bronze Diamonds, graduate to become Silver Diamonds and are eligible to join our Youth Leadership Academy.
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Youth Leadership Academy (YLA)
The YLA was established as a key plank of our Mentoring the 100 Way programme in 2006. The YLA builds on the modules looked at during the Rough/Bronze level with a firm emphasis on developing the leader within of each of the young people attending and encouraging them to apply newly acquired leadership skills to a variety of situations in which they occupy on a daily basis and share the learning with their YLA peer group.
Diamonds on this programme must be between the ages of 13 – 17.
Topics and issues discussed are much more ‘grown up’, including Home Life, Money Management and Cash Flow and Street Life with the Diamonds given much more time and space to discuss issues in depth.
With the unfortunate prevalence of youth underachievement and youth crime, it has never been more important to inculcate a sense of responsibility and leadership in our youth and the YLA aims to do just that.
Peer Mentoring Programme (PMP)
The PMP is our highest level programme that is focused on helping our Diamonds develop into Mentors to their own peers.
The programme is open primarily to those Diamonds that have passed through our Youth Leadership Academy, but depending on our resources, there are also a limited number of places for other young people between the age of 16 – 18 (as at 31st December).
Through the course of the programme, Diamonds will learn the principles of mentoring in a careful and structured format with the ultimate aim of turning them into mentors themselves. The programme follows a simple but effective process:
- I do, you watch
- I do, you help
- We do together
- You do, I help
- You do, I watch
Through this process Diamonds move from watching other mentors and learning the principles and practice of mentoring to actually doing the mentoring themselves whilst others watch
On graduating from this programme, Peer Mentors will then join the Rough/Bronze programme as mentors themselves thus creating a self–reinforcing positive cycle.
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