Mentorship program

[Jimmy Jeong]

Great idea Ken. Maybe NPAC should have a section for members where they can access information like this. It could contain contracts, information about insurance, information about rights as a photojournalist, pesky reporters to avoid , et cetera.
I'd be willing to help gather this information.
Jimmy

[Robin Rowland]

I am now entering my second week of mentoring a local student from Kitimat who is attending North Island College on Vancouver Island.  (Frankly I had never heard of the program until the college contacted me and asked me to mentor her for the two weeks)
  http://www.nic.bc.ca/program/professional_photography

It is not exactly an internship but what the college calls a practicum

http://www.nic.bc.ca/programs/courses.aspx?subj=FIN&code=726#result_anchor

We're doing a mix of photojournalism and nature photography (which is what I do up here anyway) and for me it is quite interesting because the student, at this time, is not on a photo journalism track, but seems to be aiming at portraiture or nature. So I would definitely support a renewed NPAC mentoring program ....especially one that is outside of the big urban areas where the experience is likely to be quite different.