Early Career Mentorship Program 2025 - Call for Mentors
The Early Career Mentorship Program offers members a structured pathway for members to connect with experienced professionals and academics who can guide their career development. This program is designed to foster engagement between ECG members and nominated mentors worldwide, emphasising shared interests and career planning in a small group format over a nine-month period. IACAPAP has developed tools to ensure that both mentors and mentees effectively utilise their mentorship experience.
This mentorship initiative provides essential educational insights for early careers, encouraging in-depth discussions on a variety of topics, including complex cases, research ideas, and service challenges. Additionally, the program enhances peer relationships and facilitates collaborations in the field of child and adolescent mental health, creating a supportive community for ongoing professional growth.
The new cycle of the Early Career Mentorship Program 2025 is looking for mentors. Suitable and motivated professionals (clinicians or academicians) from the IACAPAP community are welcomed to apply for this program to make unrivalled contributions to the career of our colleagues. Here are the requirements:
- Connection to the IACAPAP community: individual, affiliated or full membership holders
- Copy of CV
- A brief expression of interest letter highlighting their interests and motivation for participation.
About the program:
- The program will start on the 1st of February 2025 and run over the course of 9 months.
- Coordinated by the ECG program coordinators.
- Expectations for a minimum of 6 online mentor-mentee encounters/sessions in small group format.
If you are interested in becoming a mentor and have a passion for making an impact on early careers, please submit your application online (Google Form) before 15th December 2024. Together, let's melt distances and globalise education for the benefit of children all over the world.
For more information or to join the Early Career Group Program, please visit here.
