RAISE 2021 Evaluation & Annual Report_Web

As part of our commitment and ambition to offer our program in schools right across Australia, we know that we have to explore new methods to accommodate the very landscape of our country. Expanding into rural and remote areas alone will pose challenges to our program delivery that we must address through innovation and creativity. Currently we are exploring an online only program offering, as well as Youth Initiated Mentoring (YIM). Throughout 2021 Raise ran 5 pilot online only mentoring programs, across 4 schools: Innovating our delivery models by exploring online only mentoring

100% Enjoyed the program 100% Would recommend the program to a friend 70% Feel that things are different for them

Outcomes that mentees experienced include:

68% Feel able to make better choices

63% Feel their communication skills have improved

63% Feel more likely to help others

50% Feel more likely to continue school

44% Feel better about school

44% Feel better about themselves

Next steps: We believe that online mentoring could play an important role in our ability to offer mentoring to more young people as we scale our program Online mentoring could be a vehicle for offering mentors to young people in regional and rural areas  We are currently exploring technological options for replicating our best practice, one-to-one and face-to-face program for an online model that adheres to our Youth Safety Framework

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Raise Foundation | 2021 Evaluation Report

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