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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View GuideDescription 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.
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Overview 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
ClosureKey Personnel:
None.
Additional Information:
None.
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Profile 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
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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 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 References:
None.