Support Voice. Build Confidence. Walk Beside Change.
Volunteer Mentors play a supportive, non-licensed role within the VoiceAbility community. Mentors walk beside participants as they build confidence, prepare for opportunities, reflect on goals, and strengthen self-advocacy. Volunteer Mentors encourage confidence and self-expression, support goal-setting and preparation, and help participants use VoiceAbility tools as support aids. They do not deliver VoiceAbility content, run sessions, train others, assess participants, or represent the program as facilitators. If you wish to formally deliver VoiceAbility programs, training, or sessions, you must follow the Licensed Facilitator pathway.
Understanding the Volunteer Mentor Role
Volunteer Mentors support participants in practical, respectful, and encouraging ways — and operate within clear, defined boundaries.
What Volunteer Mentors Do
Volunteer Mentors support participants by encouraging confidence and self-expression, helping them reflect, prepare, and set goals, using VoiceAbility tools as support aids only (not program delivery), and modelling respectful communication, choice, and boundaries.
What Volunteer Mentors Do Not Do
Volunteer Mentors are not licensed facilitators, trainers, therapists, counsellors, advocates, or legal advisers. They do not deliver VoiceAbility workshops, certify or train others, provide therapy or legal advice, or act as program facilitators.
When Licensing Is Required
If you want to run VoiceAbility groups, deliver sessions, train others, or represent the program externally, you must be a Licensed Facilitator. Licensing ensures quality, safeguarding, and consistency nationally.
Mentors Are Not Facilitators
The mentor role is intentionally distinct. Mentors support individuals informally. To formally deliver VoiceAbility programs, training, or sessions, you must follow the Licensed Facilitator pathway.
How Volunteer Mentoring Works
Volunteer Mentors follow a clear and supported pathway before being matched with participants. Matching is guided, supported, and designed to respect the boundaries of both mentors and participants.
Express your interest and tell us about your availability and motivation to support people with disabilities.
Express your interest and tell us about your availability and motivation to support people with disabilities.
Find Your Pathway With VoiceAbility
Looking to deliver VoiceAbility programs? Become a Licensed Facilitator. Looking to participate? Register as a Participant.
Ready to Walk Beside Change?
If you're ready to support people with disabilities in building confidence, voice, and self-advocacy — we'd love to hear from you. Apply as a Volunteer Mentor today.
Apply as a Volunteer Mentor with VoiceAbility
Support people with disabilities to build confidence, find their voice, and promote their human rights — as a Volunteer Mentor, not a facilitator.