SAYes Mentoring

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SAYes Mentoring

Since 2008

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  • Michelle Potter

  • 8

  • 35 Brickfield Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • 2008

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OUR PURPOSE

Our purpose at SAYes is to inspire and inform leaders of social change through mentoring. We are passionate about improving social impact, about reducing social inequality and about creating and supporting youth programmes to do good better.

OUR WORK

We design, deliver and support mentoring programmes for youth in transition. All SAYes Mentorship programmes provide mentor-mentee matches with scientifically credible interventions to improve mentee independence (via the quality of decision making) and well-being (via the consistency of healthy practices). Interventions are person-centred, delivered one-to-one, and span ten transition domains focused on the intervention targets highlighted by key social development indicators (e.g., literacy, freedom of expression), sustainable development goals (e.g., decent work and economic growth), and population specific challenges (e.g., institutionalisation among care leavers). In the workplace context, interventions are ultimately aligned with core government priorities such as developing priority skills, ensuring sustainable access to the economy, and/or accelerating enterprise development in a value chain.

We thoroughly prepare you for mentorship beginning with a fit evaluation to discover if mentoring is the right social change activity for you. Mentors are taught to apply a formal mentoring approach, called transition mentoring, in working one-to-one with a mentee. Training develops key organising schema and core relationship skills relevant to person-centred work. Modules focus on individual transition (e.g., levers for behavioural and perspective change), mentorship (e.g., social motivation, guidance, advocacy, support) and features of the target population (e.g., the cognitive neuroscience of adolescence). Mentors learn to leverage deliberately structured and supported relationships to improve the impact of interventions provided by SAYes.