Events & Trainings
MENTOR Georgia provides a variety of events, trainings, and monthly webinars to strengthen the mentoring community. Through our diverse range of events, MENTOR Georgia aims to educate and prepare mentoring providers with the skills they need to serve Georgia’s youth. To get the most up-to-date information, make sure to signing up for our newsletter. Email Executive Director Leslie Hale at lhale@uga.edu for support with any of these opportunities.
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Monthly Webinars To view the current calendar of webinars, click here.
MENTOR Georgia provides two monthly webinar series: Bagels & Best Practice and Lunch & Learn. These trainings are offered via Zoom at low cost or no cost. Registration is required at least 24 hours in advance for each session in the series, and registration for each session typically opens approximately 3 weeks ahead of time. Use the links below to register for the next webinar in each series.
Bagels & Best Practice – Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™ training, diving deep on two standards for quality mentoring each month. This training is relaunching on September 30, 2025 as an eight-session series, at a cost of $15 per workshop or $100 for the full series. Register for the next training session at this link; email Leslie Hale to pre-register for the full series. You can view the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™ Fifth Edition (EEPM) here or download a flyer with all session dates here.
Lunch & Learn – A different professional development topic focused on organizational best practices each month! Each month’s topic will be announced 4-6 weeks prior. Previous topics have included strategic planning, individual fundraising, board development, and program evaluation. Sessions are hosted from 12 – 1:30 p.m. Register here.
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Virtual Coffee Hours MENTOR Georgia hosts a virtual coffee hour every third Thursday of the month as a space for mentoring providers to discuss recent learnings from MENTOR Georgia, address current needs, and contribute your learned experience to our growing network. It’s a power hour of networking with fellow mentoring programs from all over the state, and the only thing missing is you!
Make sure you have access to future coffee hours by RSVPing here. To access recordings of past coffee hours, check out our archive here
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On-demand Training MENTOR Georgia provides training and/or consulting to meet the needs and mission of your organization. To view a list of training topics we offer, click here. To discuss these trainings or any of your needs, email Leslie Hale: lhale@uga.edu.
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Annual Summit 
In June 2025, we got fired up at Summit:IGNITE.
The 2025 MENTOR Georgia Summit has passed. Stay tuned for more information about 2026! Day 1 of our 2025 Summit was a full day for those working in and on behalf of the youth mentoring field. The Summit is open to professionals, volunteers, board members, partners of youth mentoring organizations, and young people themselves. Day 2 is aimed at young people ages 14 to 24, with some program staff attending alongside their mentees and other youth participants. For the first time, the 2025 Youth Summit took place across a full day including lunch, with expanded content curated and presented by young people.
To learn more about the MENTOR Georgia Summit or view past agendas and speaker information, visit our summit page here.
MENTOR Georgia hosts an annual professional development and networking event in Athens, Georgia, at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel. The day consists of networking, speakers and workshops that drive conversations about strengthening mentoring programs throughout the state.
Visit our Summit page to learn more about the June 2025 Summit.
Thank you to our generous sponsors who supported last year’s summit:
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