TECHNOVATION
SOCIAL MEDIA
POLICY
For volunteers, mentors, and coaches
- We discourage volunteers (“volunteers” includes mentors and coaches) from connecting with program participants on social media, including Whatsapp.
- If you need to communicate with a participant, we encourage mentors and coaches to send our template to parents to receive their permission to contact their children on agreed upon communication channel(s).
- In general, we strongly encourage mentors and coaches to always include parents or guardians in communications with participants.
- Mentors are not allowed to use or download student photos from their social media accounts or take any other information from there.
- If Technovation encounters inappropriate content on your social media (violence, substance abuse, nudity, profanity), it holds the right to terminate your role with the program.
- If another volunteer friend requests, follows, or direct messages you on social media, or communicates with you directly in some other way (phone call, text message), you are not obligated to accept their request or reply back. Feel free to inform our staff if you are uncomfortable or unsure what to do next.
For students
- If a mentor, coach, volunteer, or other adult in the program friend requests, follows, or direct messages you on social media, or communicates with you directly in some other way (phone call, text message), you are not obligated to accept their request or reply back. Feel free to inform our staff if you are uncomfortable or unsure what to do next.
In addition to our programs’ official support emails, our team has staff who manage its social media platforms.