Preparing Mentees for Success: A Program Manager’s Guide
Resources for Mentors
The Preparing for Mentoring Program is an online pre-match training program designed for prospective mentors to learn about their expectations and motivations, understand their mentoring role, prepare for meeting with their mentee, and be equipped with strategies for developing a positive, long-term relationship with their mentee.
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The Preparing for Mentoring Program is an online pre-match training program designed for prospective mentors to learn about their expectations and motivations, understand their mentoring role, prepare for meeting with their mentee, and be equipped with strategies for developing a positive, long-term relationship with their mentee.
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This guide provides modules and activities to help program managers orient mentees to a mentoring program, with an emphasis on youth safety protocols (including confidentiality and child abuse reporting) and supporting the personal growth of young people through strategies like goal-setting. It includes information about how to build a community of caring, institute safety precautions, design and implement a mentee training, and teach and model relationship skills.
Goals:
To equip program managers with guidance for orienting mentees to a mentoring program.
Target Population/Eligibility of Target Sites:
This guide is applicable to many different types of mentoring programs, though it does include information primarily for formal, structured mentoring programs. It includes information about tailoring mentee orientations and activities to the developmental needs of youth of different ages.
Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice:
Training
Key Personnel:
N/A
Additional Information:
This guide was developed based on a book written by Barbara Webster, entitled Get Real. Get a Mentor. How You Can Get Where You Want To Go With the Help of a Mentor. It was created by the Evaluation, Management and Training (EMT) Group, with funding from the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, as a part of the Mentoring Plus Workshop Series.
Resource Name:
Preparing for Mentoring Program
Publisher/Source:
innovation Research & Training, Inc. (iRT)
Author:
innovation Research & Training, Inc. (iRT)
Date of Publication:
2017
Resource Type:
Mentor Training Resources
Evaluation Methodology:
Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
Evaluation Outcomes:
Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
Evaluation Validity:
Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
Accessing and Using this Resource:
This resource can be accessed freely online in PDF form, on the Evaluation, Management and Training (EMT) website: http://www.emt.org/userfiles/MenteeSeries6.pdf
References:
Evidence Base: N/A
Additional References: N/A
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Overview Description of Resource:
This guide provides modules and activities to help program managers orient mentees to a mentoring program, with an emphasis on youth safety protocols (including confidentiality and child abuse reporting) and supporting the personal growth of young people through strategies like goal-setting. It includes information about how to build a community of caring, institute safety precautions, design and implement a mentee training, and teach and model relationship skills.
Goals:
To equip program managers with guidance for orienting mentees to a mentoring program.
Target Population/Eligibility of Target Sites:
This guide is applicable to many different types of mentoring programs, though it does include information primarily for formal, structured mentoring programs. It includes information about tailoring mentee orientations and activities to the developmental needs of youth of different ages.
Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice:
Training
Key Personnel:
N/A
Additional Information:
This guide was developed based on a book written by Barbara Webster, entitled Get Real. Get a Mentor. How You Can Get Where You Want To Go With the Help of a Mentor. It was created by the Evaluation, Management and Training (EMT) Group, with funding from the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, as a part of the Mentoring Plus Workshop Series.
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Profile Resource Name:
Preparing for Mentoring Program
Publisher/Source:
innovation Research & Training, Inc. (iRT)
Author:
innovation Research & Training, Inc. (iRT)
Date of Publication:
2017
Resource Type:
Mentor Training Resources
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Evaluation and Evidence Evaluation Methodology:
Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
Evaluation Outcomes:
Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
Evaluation Validity:
Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
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Access and Usage Accessing and Using this Resource:
This resource can be accessed freely online in PDF form, on the Evaluation, Management and Training (EMT) website: http://www.emt.org/userfiles/MenteeSeries6.pdf
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References References:
Evidence Base: N/A
Additional References: N/A