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Peer Mentoring Project

NEW Peer Mentoring Toolkit

We have put up the most useful resources we used and produced during the life of the Peer Mentoring Project on this website, including translations. If you are running a similar project please feel free to make use of this information.

PEER MENTORING TOOLKIT

Young asylum seekers are one of the most vulnerable groups of people in Britain today. Many have lived through trauma and persecution in their own countries. They may be separated from family and friends and feel afraid to venture out into their new community.

The Liverpool-based Peer Mentoring Project aimed to help these isolated young people settle into life in the city. It linked young asylum seekers up with British people and more established refugees, or ‘mentors’, who helped them find out about education, volunteering opportunities, leisure pursuits and local services for young people.

refugee basketball team

The project stemmed from the three-year Youth and Community Project, funded by the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, which worked with 300 young asylum seekers on individual, group and activity-based schemes.

Research carried out during that time revealed how young asylum seekers wanted to succeed in education and in the local community but were not accessing services designed to support them.

The Peer Mentoring Project, launched in July 2004 trained young people to be mentors and set up formal mentoring relationships.

PEER MENTORING TOOLKIT

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