The Community Mentoring programme is a unique inter-institutional and community-based mentoring programme that comprises IADT, MIE, NCAD, RCSI, TCD and UCD.
PATH COMMUNITY MENTORING
Encouraging, Supporting and Informing the Next Generation of College Students
Mentors are a valuable community resource, who can help to share information and advice about their college experience, as a way to help prospective students build their awareness of college courses, how to apply, and the benefits of a college education.
PATH Community Mentoring is an opportunity to collaborate with students from 5 other colleges (IADT, NCAD, Marino Institute of Education, RCSI, and TCD) and mentor together! Mentor visits will take place in DEIS schools, further education colleges and community organisations.
Interested in Getting Involved?
Applications for 2024/25 are now open.
Community Mentors are drawn from under-represented groups at third-level and help inspire others by sharing advice and experience. You can apply (opens in a new window)here by Monday October 7th.
Molly, the project coordinator is available to offer guidance and further information at (opens in a new window)mdillonl@tcd.ie.
Become a Community Mentor: Inspire the Next Generation
Community Mentors are a valuable community resource, who can help to share information and advice about their college experience, to help prospective students build their awareness of college courses, how to apply, and the benefits of a college education. Community Mentors are drawn from the following under-represented groups at third-level:
- Mature students
- Further education and training (FET) entrants
- Under-represented socio-economic group
- Students with a disability
- Students from an ethnic minority group
- Lone parents
- 1916 Bursary recipients
While Community Mentoring will increase mentees’ confidence in relation to higher education, Community Mentoring ultimately, at the highest-level, aims to improve the levels of diversity in higher education and increase equity of access for all communities in Dublin.
Although we’d like to, we aren’t in a position to pay our Community Mentors.
Community Mentors often speak about the feel-good factor of ‘giving back’ to their community or supporting an organisation that mission they are passionate about. As well as the feel-good factor, Community Mentors can be provided with glowing references, the opportunity to meet like-minded people, develop their employability skills and most importantly, be a part of a team actively tackling educational inequality in a hands-on way.
You will deliver three one-hour mentoring sessions before the end of the academic year. Training is available online and takes less than an hour to complete.
As part of this programme, you, and another mentor you are paired with will:
- Guide and support young people and adult learners to continue and further their education.
- Develop valuable skills, references, and training certificate to enhance your cv.
Make a real difference and help increase participation in education for under-represented groups.
Additional details can be found in the FAQ section on the Community Mentoring (opens in a new window)webpage.
Applications for 2023/2024 are now open.
Submit your(opens in a new window)application formby Friday 6th October to sign up to be a Community Mentor.
Our Project Coordinator Molly will contact you by email to outline the following:
- Community Mentoring Training;
- The Community Mentor you will be delivering the mentoring sessions with;
- Your Host Organisation;
- Tusla’s Children’s First E-Learning Programme. You will be required to complete this 1.5 hour programme and send your certificate of completion to Molly;
- The Garda Vetting Process
You can contact Molly, Community Mentoring Project Coordinator, by email at (opens in a new window)mdillonl@tcd.ie with any questions and/or queries you may have.