QVDA is hoping to continue with our mentorship program for officiating this year. It involves experienced officials mentoring up and coming officials (can be high school students) during games and tournaments. The experienced official will work with their mentee(s) and provide them with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to officiate the sport on their own one day. How the mentorship will look will vary from school to school depending on experience, and the games being officiated, but we hope that more schools will try to implement some mentorship this year.

• Send kayla.vargo@pvsd.ca a list of names so she can keep track of who is taking part in the program (can be soccer, volleyball, basketball, football, etc.)
• QVDA will pay the experienced officials as if they had actually officiated the game (even if they were providing mentorship from the floor)
• We also ask that when filling out your QVOA forms that you write “mentor” or “mentee” so we can keep track of the extra expenses and of names we might have missed.

We are hoping this program will increase the amount of officials that we have in our schools (which is always needed).