Raise Centre for Youth Mentoring

Introducing the Raise Centre for Youth Mentoring

Bringing Mentoring to Every Community

Raise Foundation has trained over 10,000 individuals upskilling them in essential mentoring skills to support young people through adolescence. Together, we have provided youth mentoring to over 16,000 young people.

Yet, each day we receive requests from parents, carers, and youth support agencies desperately seeking a mentor for a young person who's missing out as they don't attend one of the 200+ schools we partner with. We've decided to solve that problem.

The Raise Centre for Youth Mentoring creates an avenue for learning and collaboration between youth mentoring providers across Australia. By offering industry certified training in mentoring, we plan to create a movement where every adult sees the need to be a trained and qualified youth mentor.
Through Raise Learning we teach people how to connect with the young people in their lives, have meaningful conversations and truly listen to young people so that they feel heard and seen by the adults in their lives.

We know we can’t do this alone, that’s why we are taking the lead and together with leading youth organisations, we are revising the Australian Youth Mentoring Benchmarks in line with international best practice. So that, every organisation that delivers a youth mentoring program does so of the highest standard ensuring every young person has access to quality mentoring in this country. By raising the bar with the new Australian Youth Mentoring Benchmarks, we aim to elevate the industry and its mission collectively.

We also know that sometimes mentoring just isn’t enough. That’s why we have created Raise Counselling where our degree qualified counsellors who specialise in teen development are able to support young who may have more complex needs that mentoring alone can’t support.

So, join us in our vision to ensure every young Australian who needs a mentor has access to a trained and trusted one.