Mentoring

Mentoring is essential for mental health care professionals, researchers, and advocates around the globe to advance professionally and to bring expertise and support to under-resourced areas.  Our e-mentoring program serves to connect mentors and mentees across all levels of experience and across all regions of the world.

What does it involve?
 
A mentor may serve as a role model, guide, teacher, advisor, peer or sponsor of his mentee. A mentor may also use the program to recruit mentees for research work, advocacy and other projects in global mental health.

Mentors can help you with:

-Career Development

-Professional Networking

-Advice and Supervision in the Field

-NGOs and Research work

-Evaluation of Programs and Program Planning

-Funding  

SEWW connects you to a mentee who has requested instruction and advice in target areas. We have a few minimum requirements, but you and your mentee determine the rest.
 
Our minimum requirements:
 
-  One-year commitment
-  Monthly correspondence with your mentee by email
-  Short evaluation form at the end

Getting Started:

How do you get involved?  Click on one of the links below to BE a mentor or if you NEED a mentor.  Please fill out the application.  All applications will be reviewed, and you will receive e-mail notification of your mentoring match.

Please e-mail us at for questions and comments.

Be a Mentor!

Need a Mentor?

TIPS for mentoring

- Keep the content of your exchanges confidential
- Agree on the frequency of communication (daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, etc.)
- Make a commitment that is realistic for you
- Establish goals, e.g. What do you hope to learn?, What are your main career objectives?
- Share your backgrounds
- Discuss career paths and trajectories, and how to achieve goals
- Exchange information and stories
- Provide contacts for networking
- Reveal what led to your current position

Closing the Gap 

Register your mental health organization and search for others here!

What is Closing the Gap?

A database of health mental programs around the world so that you can:

- Help us close the gap in funding, growth opportunities, and service provision

- Search for mental health programs in your region or other regions of the world

- Contact other programs/organizations

- Get to know your global mental health colleagues around the world, exchange ideas and share information

How do I register my organization?

- Click on the link 'Closing the Gap' and click on the bottom line: "submit your organization"

How do I search for an organization?

- Click on the link 'Closing the Gap' above, select a country and hit the submit button to find an organization.

Who should register?

- Any mental health-related organization

- Any related organization that would like to engage volunteers to join in your work and post vacancies

- Any related agencies with special skills in grant writing, advocacy, service development, program management, evaluation, or other areas, to help others benefit from your expertise.

What else can you do to share your stories?

- Write and post a story for “Stories from the Field.”