Best Practices for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities

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This guidebook is designed to help youth mentoring programs support and include youth with disabilities.

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image of the introduction of a document that talks about mentoring youth with disabilities

This guidebook is designed to help youth mentoring programs support and include youth with disabilities.

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Description of Resource:

This resource is intended to help mentoring programs ensure that their services are designed and delivered in a way that is inclusive and supportive of youth with disabilities. Created by Partners for Youth with Disabilities, the guide covers examples of mentoring models from across the U.S., including practices for recruiting, screening, training, matching, supporting mentors and mentees, starting and sustaining a mentoring program, evaluation, transition, and resources. This guidebook offers advice both for programs serving this population exclusively as well as programs that simply want to effectively integrate these youth into an existing program.

 

Goals:

The resource is designed to strengthen program services holistically, specifically around how to best serve youth with disabilities of all types.

 

Target Population/Eligibility of Target Sites:

Any program serving youth with disabilities (broadly defined).

 

Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice:

Recruitment
Screening
Training
Matching
Monitoring and Support
Closure

 

Key Personnel:

None.

 

Additional Information:

None.

Resource Name:

Best Practices for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities

 

Publisher/Source:

Partners for Youth with Disabilities

 

Author:

Eleanor Axelrod, Genelle Campbell, and Ty Holt

 

Date of Publication:

2005

 

Resource Type:

Program Management 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 is available for free download from the Partners for Youth with Disabilities website at:
http://www.pyd.org/editor/images/Best-Practices-Guide-With-Graphics.pdf

References:

None.

  • Description of Resource:

    This resource is intended to help mentoring programs ensure that their services are designed and delivered in a way that is inclusive and supportive of youth with disabilities. Created by Partners for Youth with Disabilities, the guide covers examples of mentoring models from across the U.S., including practices for recruiting, screening, training, matching, supporting mentors and mentees, starting and sustaining a mentoring program, evaluation, transition, and resources. This guidebook offers advice both for programs serving this population exclusively as well as programs that simply want to effectively integrate these youth into an existing program.

     

    Goals:

    The resource is designed to strengthen program services holistically, specifically around how to best serve youth with disabilities of all types.

     

    Target Population/Eligibility of Target Sites:

    Any program serving youth with disabilities (broadly defined).

     

    Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice:

    Recruitment
    Screening
    Training
    Matching
    Monitoring and Support
    Closure

     

    Key Personnel:

    None.

     

    Additional Information:

    None.

  • Resource Name:

    Best Practices for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities

     

    Publisher/Source:

    Partners for Youth with Disabilities

     

    Author:

    Eleanor Axelrod, Genelle Campbell, and Ty Holt

     

    Date of Publication:

    2005

     

    Resource Type:

    Program Management 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 is available for free download from the Partners for Youth with Disabilities website at:
    http://www.pyd.org/editor/images/Best-Practices-Guide-With-Graphics.pdf

  • References:

    None.