Enhancing Mentorship Opportunities for Target Equity Groups

The Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet (HCCC) is a provincial ministerial committee working to achieve the best possible outcomes for Manitoba's children. HCCC has established government interdepartmental working groups, including a group led by the Manitoba Sport, Culture, Heritage and Tourism to “Increase access to sport, art, culture and recreation opportunities for low income and equity groups”. This group is pursuing projects with the objective to support increased access to sport, art, culture and recreation opportunities for target equity groups.

As a first step towards this objective, the working group is conducting a survey to gain a better understanding of current community-based sport, recreation, art, or culture programs that support target equity groups through formal or informal mentorship. This survey is not an evaluation of these programs. Rather, the purpose is to determine the extent to which existing models already support the target equity groups. Opportunities may be identified to strengthen support for these groups and to promote further partnerships and collaboration.

Directions

Respondents are asked to complete the questions using data and information that is readily available to them; additional data analysis is not required for the purposes of the survey. Questions in which data/information is not available may be left blank.

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Definitions

Target equity groups: For the purpose of the survey, “target equity groups” includes low-income individuals/families, newcomers, people with disabilities, women/girls and gender-diverse individuals, 2SLGBTQI+, racialized people, and Indigenous people.

Mentorship models: For the purpose of this survey, a “mentorship model” is a program and/or organization, or a component of a program and/or organization, in which a participant or group of participants is assigned to work with a mentor to support their participation, success and development.

Formal mentorship: For the purpose of this survey, “formal mentorship” refers to a program that is specifically designed to provide mentorship opportunities to participants.

Informal mentorship: For the purpose of this survey, “informal mentorship” refers to a program and/or organization in which participants, including volunteers and staff are mentored in some capacity, though this may not be the main intention of the program.