Mentor Guide for Youth Registered Apprenticeship Programs

Description of Resource:  This mentor guide provides mentors who advise youth apprentices or support apprenticeship programs at work with tips, guidance and resources. This guide includes four modules on the following topics: What is a Youth Apprentice and What is a Mentor; Meet your Apprentice; Teaching and Advising on the Job; Records, Regulations and Support for Mentors. The guide also includes a list of resources that mentors and employers can utilize to support the implementation of a Registered Apprenticeship program.

Note: This resource may be useful to supplement with other resources on diversity and workplace mentoring such as: Cultural and Class Conflicts in Mentor-Mentee Matches; Workplace Mentoring Supplement to the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring; and Mentoring for Enhancing Career Interests and Exploration.

Goals:  To provide mentors and employers with guidance on how to best support mentees and young people participating in an apprenticeship or workplace mentoring program.

Target Population/Eligibility or Target Sites: Mentoring Programs, Mentors

Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice: All

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Publisher/Source: Urban Institute

Authors: Stephen F. Hamilton with Zach Boren, Bhavani Arabandi, and Tamar Jacoby

Date of Publication: June 2021

Resource Type: Mentor Guides and Handouts

Resource has not evaluated for effectiveness.

This resource can be accessed freely online:

https://www.urban.org/research/publication/mentor-guide-youth-registered-apprenticeship-programs

Evidence Base: N/A

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