Social mentoring enables and strengthens relationships
The "Bundesverband soziales Mentoring" strengthens the field, sets quality standards, and shows what social mentoring achieves - and what it has the potential to achieve.
The "Bundesverband soziales Mentoring" strengthens the field, sets quality standards, and shows what social mentoring achieves - and what it has the potential to achieve.
A widerange of scientific studies show that reliable, responsive relationships - especially during childhood and adolescence - sustainably foster resilience, self-efficacy, and social-emotional development. Social mentoring offers an internationally evaluated and effective relational approach to supporting this development.
As an umbrella organization, Bundesverband soziales Mentoring brings together expertise, fosters professional exchange among mentoring programs, and supports their ongoing quality development. This way, knowledge grows about how mentoring works how it can contribute to more equitable life trajectories and stronger social cohesion.
While psychosocial development and relational competence are central building blocks for healthy development, social mentoring sees itself as a complementary approach: not a substitute for structural support, but a relational offering that enables development, trust, and participation.
alv supports the Bundesverband in its work around a shared learning question: How can the value of nurturing relationships in childhood - and beyond - be made more visible and more impactful at a structural level?
Key facts:
* Duration: 2026
* Location: Germany
