Concerned about a teen in your life?

Young Australians are navigating a severe mental wellbeing crisis with rising household stress, poverty, bullying, social media impact, and school refusal. Mental illness and youth suicide rates are alarmingly high.

This is where a mentor can help.

Having a non-parental figure in their life can be transformative for many teens, offering new perspectives and support that complements their existing relationships. Raise Digital’s online mentoring programs make mentoring more accessible than ever.

Young people are matched with a trained and trusted mentor and together they work 1:1 at a time that suits the young person, regardless of location or schedule. Raise Digital fosters genuine connections built on trust and respect, providing all the benefits of meaningful mentoring relationships without constraints.

Who is Raise Digital for?

Our online programs are open to young people in years 7-10 at high school (or equivalent age, 13-16 years old, for home schoolers) looking for extra support. Someone who will listen. Someone who will hear them. Someone who will guide them.

	Whose school doesn’t offer Raise mentoring within school hours
	Studying via distance education or homeschooling
	Who learn at home due to school refusal or other challenges in the traditional school environment
	Receiving support from another youth service that believe a mentor would complement the support plan
	Who have been through the program before or missed out on the in-school program
	Who are comfortable with technology, talking online and feel comfortable sitting at a screen for 45-50 mins

This program won’t suit young people:

	Who are forced into it
	Who feel screen fatigue after a day at school
	Who are overcommitted in the afternoons, making it difficult to make mentoring a priority each week
	A person in crisis who needs the professional support of a Psychologist.
	Is currently under the care of a Psychologist for suicidal ideation or are or have recently experienced significant trauma.