Resources for Mentoring Organizations
Program Planning, Design, and Start-Up
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A Guidebook for Program Development |
Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development (PDF) |
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Building Effective Peer Mentoring Programs in Schools: An Introductory Guide |
This guidebook provides a framework for designing a peer mentoring program, where older youth (typically high school students) mentoring younger students (elementary or middle school) in a school setting. |
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Building from the Ground Up: Creating Effective Programs to Mentor Children of Prisoners (The Amachi Model) |
This guide draws on P/PV's experience with Amachi programs around the country to distill lessons for planning, developing and managing mentoring-children-of-prisoners programs. |
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Creating a Successful Online Mentoring Program |
Virtual volunteering and virtual volunteer program management are beginning to play a larger role in national and community service. Not intended as a substitute for traditional "in person" volunteering, this application of technology adds both to the quality of service contributed and helps attract people who may not have volunteered before. |
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Designing and Implementing a Mentoring Program for Children of Prisoners |
Children with incarcerated parents are especially vulnerable to at-risk behaviors and are in a position to receive enormous positive benefits from volunteering and being mentored. National and community service programs will find these recommendations on designing and implementing a program that mentors children of prisoners helpful. |
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Establishing a Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Program |
Operating a cross-age peer mentoring program has been shown to offer benefits for both mentors and mentees; however program directors must make modifications when adapting the traditional adult-to-youth model. |
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Establishing an Outdoor-Based Mentoring Program |
By taking the traditional mentoring idea outdoors, Trekkers is able to connect caring adults with youth through travel, community service, and adventure-based education. The outdoor setting provides a neutral place for the mentor and mentee to have a shared experience and build an appreciation of the earth as "educator." |
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Gender-Specific Approaches in Mentoring (Fact Sheet) |
The fact sheet explores how programs can create specialized mentoring services for either girls or boys. |
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Mentoring Immigrant and Refugee Youth: A Toolkit for Program Coordinators |
Designed to offer program staff important background information, promising program practices, and strategies to build and sustain high quality mentoring relationships for immigrant youth. Through “ready-to-use” tools templates, and training, the Immigrant Youth Toolkit outlines skills needed to design, plan, manage, operate, and evaluate programming specifically for immigrant youth. |
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Mentoring Programs Toolkit: Equipping Your Organization for Effective Outreach |
This toolkit offers a variety of practical resources that can be used by faith leaders just starting a program or those already engaged in such programs that are looking for ways to further improve their efforts. The tools are “tried and tested,” drawn from experienced mentoring programs around the nation. |
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People of Faith Mentoring Children of Promise |
Philadelphia’s Amachi program combines the efforts of secular nonprofit, public, and faith communities to connect children of prisoners with volunteer mentors. This publication shares lessons learned during the development and implementation of this highly effective program and provides a roadmap for community leaders across the country who are interested in starting similar initiatives. |
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Planning a School-Based Mentoring Program |
Focuses on key aspects of planning a school-based mentoring (SBM) program. These lessons are drawn from the NMC's extensive experience providing training and technical assistance to SBM programs, and will be valuable to any mentoring program operating in a school setting. |
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Starting a Career Development Tutoring/Mentoring Program in Ten Steps |
This effective practice describes ten steps for beginning a tutoring/mentoring program based on the philosophy that all youth, but particularly those from low-income families, need positive role models that demonstrate the skills of self-esteem and good learning habits to move from poverty to jobs to a career. |
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The ABCs of School-Based Mentoring |
The ABCs of School-Based Mentoring is a technical assistance packet which provides practical information for youth-serving organizations that want to implement new school-based mentoring programs or strengthen existing ones. |
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The Mosaic of Faith-Based Mentoring (Bulletin) |
This resources explores ways that faith institutions can set up their own mentoring programs, as well as tips for community organizations on how to work with faith-based partners on mentoring projects. |
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Using a Faith-Based Organization to Serve as an Intermediary in a Mentoring Program |
This plan includes a key role for the faith community, and Good Samaritan was granted funding from the County to launch a church-based mentoring program for Project Zero participants. Within one year Project Zero reduced the number of non-working families on its welfare rolls from 142 to 10 in Ottawa County. |
Policies and Procedures
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Generic Mentoring Program Policy and Procedure Manual |
Generic Mentoring Program Policy and Procedure Manual |
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Using a Policy and Procedure Manual to Guide Volunteers |
A Policy and Procedure Guide developed to document program goals and objectives, progress reporting, hours worked, and other administrative matter to provide mentors and programs a better understanding of the program activities and progress. |
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Writing a Policies and Procedures Manual for a Youth Mentoring Program |
Administering a youth mentoring program is complex, and written policies and procedures can contribute to the long-term stability and safety of the program. This effective practice shares a recommended set of policies and procedures from the National Mentoring Center. |
Mentor Recruitment and Screening
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Creative Recruitment |
Video that will help you understand the guiding principles of volunteer recruitment, learn how to identify a target audience for your recruitment efforts, become familiar with various recruitment strategies, and gain ideas for recruiting more male volunteers. |
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Marketing for Recruitment of Mentors |
Marketing for the Recruitment of Mentors: A Workbook for Finding and Attracting Volunteers (PDF) |
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Marketing for the Recruitment of Mentors |
This comprehensive guide connects the principles of marketing with the recruitment of volunteer mentors. Designed as a workbook, it offers numerous worksheets and tools to help your program plan for and implement a marketing plan. It covers everything from creating effective media messages to building a strong program "brand" in the community. |
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Performing Background Checks on Potential Mentors |
All programs that work with children and youth have a responsibility to exercise reasonable care (sometimes called “due diligence”) when faced with the chance that harm could result from their activities. Screening is part of the larger risk management effort that helps your program meet this responsibility. A national pilot project called SafetyNET is a cost effective, time-saving tool that mentoring programs can use to conduct a FBI fingerprint-based background check. |
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Promoting Inclusion in Mentoring |
According to the MENTOR website, 15 million young Americans are waiting for mentors. With the Corporation's 2006 strategic plan, and it's focus on mentoring disadvantaged youth, all those who are interested in this type of service should be welcomed and encouraged. |
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Recruiting Male Mentors |
Historically, men have volunteered for social service programs in lower numbers than women, and this absence is especially noticeable in mentoring programs. This effective practice offers tips from mentoring programs across the country on how to attract male mentors. |
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Recruiting Male Volunteers |
Recruiting Male Volunteers: A Guide Based on Exploratory Research (PDF) |
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Recruiting Mentors for At-Risk and Youth with Disabilities in Rural Areas |
Historically, recruiting volunteers for rural programs has been difficult. Add to this the nature of those needing mentoring — "at risk" and youth with disabilities — and finding mentors in this situation might seem especially problematic. However, a program in a rural Texas town enjoys success by creating a new plan every three months and following through with a focused campaign. |
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Recruiting Mentors in Tribal/Rural Communities: Ten Tips |
Implementing any type of volunteer-based youth service is always challenging in rural and tribal communities, and mentoring is no exception. This effective practice provides ten tips for advancing recruitment efforts. |
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Recruiting Mentors on a College Campus for Child-Focused Programs |
Children's programs call for unique individuals who can serve as mentors. Finding these students on college campuses prove to be a challenge. This list of best practices streamlines this process for others serving in the same capacity. |
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Recruiting Mentors: A Guide to Finding Volunteers |
Drawing on effective practices used by volunteer-based organizations and on research findings about mentoring, this technical assistance packet describes recruitment strategies that programs can adapt to meet their particular circumstances. |
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Screening Applicants for Effectiveness |
The first publication of its kind, SAFE was developed to help organizations prevent infiltration of child predators into their mentoring and youth-serving programs. Based on volumes of research, Recommended Best. |
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Strengthening Mentoring Programs |
Strengthening Mentoring Programs Training Curriculum, Module 1: Targeted Mentor Recruiting (PDF) |
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Strengthening Mentoring Programs by Screening Mentors |
Strengthening Mentoring Programs Training Curriculum, Module 2: Screening Mentors (PDF) |
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Using Volunteer Motivations for Effective Mentor Recruitment and Retention |
Volunteer theory attempts to link people’s beliefs and their subsequent behaviors. This effective practice examines how mentoring programs can use this theory, and the Volunteer Functions Inventory tool itself, to create more powerful mentor recruitment messages and frame the volunteer experience to meet mentors’ personal expectations and motivations for getting involved. |
Mentor Training and Support
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Creating Mentoring Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities: Issues and Suggested Strategies |
Creating Mentoring Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities: Issues and Suggested Strategies |
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Designing an Effective Training Program For Your Mentors |
Presents a hands-on workshop to give you the tools you need to effectively train your mentors. It will tell you what works for other programs and learn concepts of adult learning and training techniques. |
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Designing and Customizing Mentor Training |
One of the most frequently requested areas of technical assistance is the development of mentor training. Specifically, mentoring professionals request the hands-on tools needed to develop the content and exercises of a mentor training. This training will provide all of the necessary information for you to immediately begin to effectively prepare your mentors. |
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Engaging Matches in Volunteer Service (Fact Sheet) |
Service projects can be an excellent enhancement to any mentoring program or relationship, and this fact sheet examines how programs can build a service component into their mentoring activities. |
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Enriching the Mentoring Experience Through Ongoing Mentee Training (Fact Sheet) |
While programs often provide extensive ongoing training for mentors, mentees can also benefit from training in support of their mentoring relationships over time. This fact sheet examines strategies for providing this ongoing training to youth participants. |
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Foster Youth Mentorship Training for Program Managers |
This training is aimed at mentor program managers in the state of California who serve or who wish to serve youth in foster care. |
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Guide to Mentoring for Parents and Guardians |
This customizable Word template for a parent handbook can help programs alleviate the many concerns that parents of mentees might have about your program, as well as providing advice for parents on how they can encourage their child's mentoring relationship. |
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Involving Parents in Mentoring Programs (Fact Sheet) |
This fact sheet explores ways in which mentoring programs can more proactively involve parents of participating youth. |
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Keeping Matches in Touch Over the Summer Months (Fact Sheet) |
One of the biggest challenges for school-based programs is how to keep matches in touch over the summer break, and this fact sheet explores simple and cost-effective strategies for maintaining that contact during times when face-to-face meetings are difficult to arrange. |
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Making the Transition to Middle School (Fact Sheet) |
The transition to middle school can be a difficult one for many youth, and this fact sheet explores how mentoring programs and relationships can help students cope with the challenges of moving to middle school. |
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Measuring the Quality of Mentor Youth Relationships: A Tool for Mentoring Programs |
This resource provides programs with a simple youth survey that measures the closeness of their relationship with their mentor. This can be an excellent tool for showing that your program is making valuable mentoring connections, and can also be administered at various points to see which mentoring pairs may need extra support or training. |
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Mentoring Sexual Minority Youth |
Mentoring Sexual Minority Youth is a technical assistance packet for mentoring programs that may serve lesbian and gay youth and provides steps and training that programs can implement to make these youth feel safe and welcome. |
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Ongoing Training for Mentors: Twelve Interactive Sessions for U.S. Department of Education Mentoring Programs |
This training guide provides 12 ready-to-use training activities that can enhance mentor skills and support them in their relationships with youth over time. Each activity lasts 45 minutes to an hour and comes complete with facilitator notes and handouts. |
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Partnering with County Extension Agents to Train Mentors |
Customized mentor-training materials that can be incorporated into the existing youth-development curricula used by extension service agents statewide. The partnership is as an effective model of a practical approach for national service programs seeking to provide uniform, consistent mentor training across large, statewide or multi-site service areas. |
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Preparing Mentees for Success: A Program Manager's Guide |
Mentoring programs tend to focus on training their mentors but seldom extend the same attention to orienting their mentees. Training your mentees will help them ot optimize the mentoring experience and ensure that your program operates safely. |
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Preparing Participants for Mentoring: The U.S. Department of Education Mentoring Program’s Guide to Initial Training of Volunteers, Youth, and Parents |
This guide teaches programs how to deliver a thorough training session for new mentors, as well as how to prepare new mentees and their parents for participation in the program. It provides sample agendas and a number of ready-to-use training activities that will give mentors the skills they need early on as they start building trusting mentoring relationships. |
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Putting Youth Development Principles to Work in Mentoring Programs (Fact Sheet) |
This fact sheet explains how mentoring programs can build youth development philosophies into the delivery of their services and the mentoring activities they provide participants. |
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School Libraries: A Critical Resource for School-Based Mentoring Programs and the Youth They Serve (Fact Sheet) |
This fact sheet examines the critical role that school (and public) libraries can play in helping school-based mentoring programs meet their academic goals and in helping mentoring pairs find fun and meaningful activities. |
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Strengthening Native Community Commitment Through Mentoring |
Designed specifically to assist individuals who wish to begin a youth mentoring program in a community, school, workplace or church or want to expand and improve an already existing initiative. |
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Summertime Program Tune-Up (Fact Sheet) |
The summer months are an ideal time to make adjustments to services and develop new curriculum for the coming year. This fact sheet explores strategies for strengthening school-based programs during the "off" months. |
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Supporting Mentors |
Provides assistance and direction on supporting mentors. |
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Supporting Mentors |
This packet helps programs develop and implement strategies that support mentors, help them build trusting relationships with their mentees and, ultimately, contribute to positive outcomes for youth. |
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The Aftercare for Indiana Through Mentoring Program |
Program specifically designed for youth who are delinquent or at high risk of delinquency. |
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The Mentoring Toolkit: Resources for Developing Programs for Incarcerated Youth |
Provides information, program descriptions, and links to important resources that can assist juvenile detention facilities and other organizations to design effective mentoring programs for neglected and delinquent youth, particularly those who are incarcerated. |
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Toolkit for the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring |
Includes tools, templates and advice for implementing and adhering to the Elements. |
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Training New Mentees: A Manual for Preparing Youth in Mentoring Programs |
The preparation of youth for the mentoring experience is an often-overlooked aspect of program success. This guidebook features age-appropriate agendas and training activities, as well as sample content for a Mentee Handbook. |
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Training New Mentors |
This packet focuses on training new mentors and includes suggested activities for two workshops that, together,will help new mentors gain a better understanding of their role and what they can do to ensure a successful relationship with the youth. |
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Training New Mentors |
A comprehensive guide to providing mentors with initial training, complete with over a dozen ready-to-use training activities. This is an excellent resource for giving your program's mentors a solid foundation to build their relationships on. |
Matching
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Managing Risk After the Match Is Made (Fact Sheet) |
This fact sheet examines strategies for supervising and monitoring matches over time, an especially critical risk management task for school- and community-based programs. |
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Matching Peer Mentors with Children Who Have Disabilities |
Students with disabilities can often use a helping hand to participate in recreational activities. A Learn and Serve program enlisted volunteer students to be peer mentors for students with disabilities. The program enables students with disabilities to participate in recreational activities and helps to raise awareness about disability issues among their peer volunteers. |
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Same Race and Cross Race Matching |
This technical assistance packet provides practical tips on how to tailor matching, training, and support processes to increase the chances that cross-race matches survive. |
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Strengthening Mentoring Programs by Making and Supporting the Match |
Strengthening Mentoring Programs Training Curriculum, Module 3: Making and Supporting the Match (PDF) |
Mentor-Mentee Relationship
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Building Strong Relationships in Mentoring Programs |
With the increased expansion of mentoring programs, careful attention must be paid to the development and quality of the mentor-mentee relationship, as this bond is crucial for attaining desired youth outcomes. Identifies common practices of mentoring programs that foster close and supportive relationships. Program decisions from how activities are chosen, to training and support offered to mentors, impact the relationship between mentors and youth. |
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Overcoming Relationship Pitfalls (Fact Sheet) |
This fact sheet explores the typical cycle of a mentoring relationship and the common stumbling blocks that can occur along the way. |
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Providing Summertime Contact in School-Based Mentoring Programs |
This resource offers several strategies available to school-based mentoring programs to keep matches engaged, minimize the negative impact of the summer break on relationship quality, and get matches ready to build on positive momentum when the school year starts back up. |
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Redefining Your Success: The Role of Adolescent Connectedness in Demonstrating Mentoring Impact (Fact Sheet) |
This fact sheet explores the concept of connectedness, a trait many researchers believe to be critical in helping youth navigate the choppy waters of adolescence. The Hemingway Scale, and important tool for measuring connectedness, is also highlighted. |
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Using Ten Techniques to Sustain a Successful Mentoring Relationship |
This effective practice shares ten techniques for developing and sustaining a successful mentoring relationship. |
Best Practices and Research Findings
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A Guide to Career Focused Mentoring For Youth With Disabilities |
The creation of the Mentoring Guide is rooted in theU.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy’s (ODEP) charge to find and promote the most effective research-based policies and practices to improve transition outcomes for youth with disabilities. |
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Best Practice Guidelines for Foster Care Youth Mentoring |
Best Practice Guidelines for Foster Care Youth Mentoring |
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Building Sustainable Partnerships with Schools: Three Key Strategies for Mentoring Programs |
Community-based organizations are increasingly working together with teachers and administrators to bring mentoring programs to schools. To collaborate effectively and ensure maximum benefits for youth, strong partnerships must be forged. This effective practice describes 3 strategies: 1) begin on common ground; 2) become a commodity, not a burden; and 3) share data and includes concrete action steps to achieve sustainable partnerships. |
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Delivering Culturally Competent Mentoring Services to Low-Income Latino Youth (Case Study) |
This case study examines the successful strategies of the Padrinos Barrio Mentoring Project in Tuscon, AZ. This program provides a culturally-focused mentoring model that connects mentored youth to their community and their shared history and traditions in an effort to address a number of delinquent behaviors. |
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Delivering Quality Mentoring Services in Rural and Tribal Settings (Case Study) |
This case study provides best practices for developing mentoring services in rural and tribal settings, addressing the unique needs faced in remote, high poverty areas. |
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Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring |
Quality and evidence based standards which include the latest research and practice wisdom to help mentoring relationships thrive and endure. This new publication includes six evidence-based standards addressing mentor and mentee recruitment; screening; training; matching; monitoring and support; and closure. |
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Establishing a Responsible Mentoring Program |
Guidelines offered in this effective practice include measures any mentoring program can take to offer the best mentoring possible. |
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Examining the Impact Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Education’s Student Mentoring Program |
Brings together several of the nation’s most prominent school-based mentoring scholars to present and discuss their research and the implications for program practices. |
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Friends For Youth Recommended Best Practices |
Friends For Youth Recommended Best Practices |
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High School Mentors In Brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study |
This issue of P/PV In Brief is based on High School Students as Mentors, which explored the efficacy of high school mentors using data from P/PV's large-scale random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring programs. |
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High School Students As Mentors |
Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring impact study |
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High School Students as Mentors: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study |
Using data from our large-scale random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters SBM, this report addresses the complex questions raised by using high school students as mentors in school-based mentoring programs. |
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Identifying Ten Characteristics of Quality Mentoring Relationship |
This effective practice shares ten characteristics for developing a quality mentoring program or evaluating an existing one. |
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Latin American Youth Center Promotores Pathway Model Impact Evaluation |
Random assignment evaluation of the Promotores Pathway Model—in which staff members provide disconnected youth with holistic supports—to discover if youth participation in leads to improved outcomes. |
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Making a Difference in Schools: The Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study |
This report presents the findings of P/PV's landmark random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring—the first national study of this program model. |
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Making the Grade: A Guide to Incorporating Academic Achievement Into Mentoring Programs and Relationships |
This 100+ page guidebook provides guidance on designing and implementing a school-based mentoring program that is grounded in research and best practices. It also provides advice for mentoring relationships in school settings, including tips for building trust, setting goals, and improving academic and personal competencies for participants. |
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Mentoring At-Risk Youth Project |
An outcomes study and a random assignment impact study to explore the extent to which higher-risk youth benefit from community-based mentoring and the types of program practices that are linked most closely with youth benefits. |
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Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs |
This report, the second in a series on Mentoring School-Age Children, compares the experiences and relationships of over 600 volunteers mentors in two different settings, comunity-based and school-based, to draw conclusions about these program types. |
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P/PV Preview: Mentoring Ex-Prisoners in the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative |
This brief previews findings from a forthcoming report on mentoring and outcomes in the Ready4Work prisoner reentry initiative. These findings suggest that mentoring is a promising strategy for supporting recently released prisoners in reconnecting to their communities. |
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Positive Support: Mentoring and Depression Among High-Risk Youth |
This report examines the potential benefits of matching high-risk youth with faith-based mentors. It describes findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative, in which mentored youth were less likely to show signs of depression than youth who were not mentored. |
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Preparing Mentors to Work with Older Foster Youth |
Foster youth may have significant needs and issues that can inhibit the successful development of mentoring relationships. This effective practice highlights strategies used by the Powerhouse Mentoring Program — a community-based mentoring program that provides one-on-one mentoring for youth ages 13–21 in the foster care system. |
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Research In Action Series |
Research series connecting mentoring research to practice and policy to increase the impact of youth mentoring. Includes 10 issues on topics such as: promoting youth development, effective program practices, staff development, fostering mentoring relationships, match closure, school based mentoring, cross-age peer mentoring, intergenerational mentoring, race and ethnicity and mentoring children of prisoners. |
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School-Based Mentoring |
A landmark random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring—the first national study of this program model. |
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School-Based Mentoring: A Closer Look |
Based on surveys conducted with youth, mentors, teachers and case managers, this report explores the character and quality of matches and the potential benefits seen in school-based mentoring programs. |
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Webinar - Peer Mentoring: New Research and Innovative Practice |
This webinar, presented by Keoki Hansen of the Big Brothers Big Sisters National Office and Tina Christensen of BBBS of Greater Rochester (NY), examines recent research on the effectiveness of peer mentors and many of the challenges peer mentoring programs face during implementation. The session focuses in on how BBBS peer programs are learning from this research and designing an "enhanced" mentoring model that should improve program outcomes. These are critical insights for anyone running a peer mentoring program in the schools. |
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Youth in Foster Care With Adult Mentors During Adolescence Have Improved Adult Outcomes |
Study was to determine whether youth in foster care with adult mentors during adolescence have improved adult outcomes. |
Evaluation
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Evaluating Mentoring Programs |
This methodological brief is designed to provide both program operators and researchers with practical advice about how to assess a program's implementation and impact. |
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Increasing the Success Rate of One-To-One Youth Mentoring With a Survey |
Evaluations of mentoring programs show that a youth's one-to-one relationship with a supportive adult can lead to a number of positive outcomes. Research indicates that mentoring relationships that take hold are likely to grow progressively more valuable over time. This effective practice offers a survey for evaluating both individual mentors and overall program quality. |
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Match Characteristics Questionnaire and the Youth Mentoring Survey |
These mentor and mentee surveys assess key characteristics of match quality, match structure, and external factors that influence a match. The YMS and the MCQ can help show how programmatic efforts influence participants' experience and how match characteristics promote mentee outcomes. They also can augment or replace existing match supervision tools. |
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Measuring the Quality of Mentor-Youth Relationships: A Tool for Mentoring Programs |
This evaluation guide helps program coordinators to answer the question of, "Does my program work?" by gauging the effectiveness of both individual relationships and the program as a whole through a simple 20-question survey given to youth. |
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Outcome-Based Evaluation: A Training Toolkit for Programs of Faith |
Outcome-based evaluation is one way programs can clearly identify who they serve, what results are desired, and how these results become true benefits for people served. |
Other Mentoring Resources
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Wisdom of Age: A Handbook for Staff |
Comprehensive resource designed to offer program staff with specific tools and promising practices to best recruit, train and support mentors over the age of 50 |
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Bullying Prevention and Intervention: The TeamMates Mentoring Program, Lincoln Public Schools (Case Study) |
Bullying remains, unfortunately, a persistent issue for American schools. This case study of the TeamMates program in Lincoln, NE highlights their mentoring-based approach to bullying prevention, with additional advice for any program wanting to impact this issue via mentoring. |
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CareGiver's Choice |
Mentoring Children of Prisoners: Caregiver’s Choice is a three year demonstration project that makes it possible for many more kids across the country to have mentors, and for many more families to enjoy all the benefits of mentoring. This program is unique because it gives the child’s caregiver the power to choose. Mentoring Children of Prisoners: Caregiver’s Choice takes the guesswork out of finding a mentoring program. |
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Group Mentoring: A Study of Mentoring Groups in Three Programs |
Group Mentoring describes the strengths and challenges of group mentoring-an approach that is gaining popularity. Implications for the mentoring field and for future research are also discussed. |
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Helping Students Feel Comfortable About Being Tutored or Mentored |
Some students may feel angry or even hurt about being chosen to participate in a tutoring or mentoring program. Oftentimes, students become upset if they are taken out of the classroom or are prevented from participating in other out-of-school time activities because of tutoring or mentoring. This effective practice from America Learns provides strategies for discussing these issues openly with students, and suggests ways to respond to student discomfort about tutoring or mentoring. |
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Incorporating Effective Practices for Successful e-Mentoring |
A mentoring relationship can take many forms, and increasingly in this technological age, e-mentoring is gaining prominence. Like traditional face-to-face mentoring, e-mentoring poses its own challenges and rewards. This effective practice shares techniques that are essential for successful e-mentoring. |
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Making the Most of Mentoring Opportunities |
Quality mentoring takes many different forms, depending on the needs of both adults (mentors) and children (mentees). This effective practice explores several different options in mentoring. |
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Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents |
Special considerations for effectively serving youth who have one or more parents in the prison system are reviewed in this brief guidebook. Topics covered include specialized mentor training and program partnerships that can help in working with young people in this circumstance. |
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Mentoring Formerly Incarcerated Adults: Insights from the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative |
This report explores mentoring as a tool for supporting the successful reentry of formerly incarcerated people, providing insights about how mentoring, or supportive relationships more broadly, can fit into comprehensive reentry efforts. |
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Mentoring Teenage Girls at a Homeless Shelter |
Teenagers who come from dysfunctional family situations do not usually have the skills necessary to live on their own. For those whose path leads them to a homeless shelter, dedicated volunteers can make a difference in helping them turn their lives around. |
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Mentoring, Policy and Politics |
In this policy brief, former P/PV President Gary Walker reflects on the impact and appeal of mentoring, addresses various critiques of the movement and suggests future directions for mentoring's application. |
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One-on-One and Group Mentoring: An Integrated Approach (Case Study) |
This case study of the Young Women Leaders Program in Virginia provides insight into their successful group mentoring strategy involving college-age women working with young girls on a variety of issues. |
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Preparing Parents for the Mentoring Experience |
Aside from the young person being mentored, parents are the primary stakeholders in the mentoring relationship. Yet sometimes parents do not clearly understand why their child has been referred to a mentoring program, what mentoring is all about, their role, and the roles of the mentor and program. Because parents play such an important function in the mentoring relationship some thought should be given to how we prepare them for the mentoring journey. This effective practice outlines sample language and ideas for preparing parents for the mentoring experience. |
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Solving Problems in Mentoring Programs |
Mentoring programs face common problems as they work to provide youth with positive adult role models. Shares ideas for recruiting, selecting mentors, training and orientation, matching youth with mentors, and establishing relationships. |
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The Promise and Challenge of Mentoring High-Risk Youth: Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative |
Focusing on four sites in the National Faith-Based Initiative, this report examines mentoring programs designed specifically for high-risk youth, especially youth involved with the juvenile justice system. |
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Why Don’t We Like To Change? Helping Organizations Chart a New Course for Future Success (Case Study) |
This case study examines how a local mentoring program overcame leadership challenges and other barriers to success, illustrating why organizations can be resistant to change and how local mentoring programs can ensure that they do not become stagnant and ineffective in a constantly shifting landscape. |
