Last week we held a graduation for our TRY Group Mentoring program participants at Werribee Primary School. Our TRY group mentoring programs involve engaging young people in need of additional support and guidance with screened and trained adult volunteer mentors in a fun and friendly environment. This group had a variety of different exciting activities [...]
Thinking about volunteering? Many disadvantaged young people in Melbourne are facing challenges every single day and need someone to help support them. Here at TRY, we know the incredible benefits that youth mentoring can have to the lives of disadvantaged young people. All it takes is to be able to listen, a little bit [...]
We are currently looking for male volunteers for our MITH group at Werribee Primary School! The program starts Term 4 2018 and you must be available Wednesday mornings. Mentoring in the Hood (MITH) is our group mentoring program that involves matching young people who are in need of additional support and guidance with screened and [...]
8th May 6-7pm Victoria Uni - Footscray Book here 15th May 6:30-7:30pm TRY Head Office - Mt Waverley Book here 17th May 6-7pm Ross House - CBD Book here 23rd May 6-7pm Frankston Library - Frankston Book here
This match have so much fun together, they meet weekly and have done many activities but the thing they love doing the most is cooking and baking. Gelilia has the best smile and absolutely loves having one-to-one time with Liliana!
Our mentoring team has maintained their 100% rating in their Australian Service Excellence Standards assessment. This has been an enormous amount of work for Tricia and her team gathering and developing evidence for the assessment over the past few months. ASES accredited organisations require external assessment every three years. The ASES program is specifically designed [...]
THANK YOU SALVADOR! Salvador is one of our newest volunteer mentors in a one-to-one match which has been going about four months. Salvador has been so inspired by his experience that he has just VOLUNTEERED for us at the Moonee Ponds Volunteer Expo. Taking on the role of a 'human library' (the Expo was in [...]
It was a fantastic turn out for a great day on Saturday at our mentor/mentee graduation ceremony down at the amazing Peninsula Obstacle Racing Course down in Moorooduc! Nearly 50 of our mentors and mentees turned up to crawl, climb, swing and have a blast! The little bit of rain just helped that mud along. [...]
This year we had just one clear nominee for our Volunteer of the Year award: YPA Real Estate for what has been a truly amazing example of corporate social responsibility. In 2016 Werribee Primary School identified 15 grade 5 boys that were in need of extra support and mentoring. These young people may have been [...]
At our Volunteer Awards breakfast the winner of the 2017 William Forster Award was Wayne Ashdow. Wayne began volunteering with TRY Mentoring in May 2015 as a 1-to-1 mentor. He was matched twice, with two young males who had a lot of very significant challenges in their life. Wayne gave it his all and consistently [...]
