Program Resources
Discover a wealth of resources to elevate your mentoring program. From tools for effective program management to insights for deeper mentor-mentee connections, MENTOR Milwaukee offers the guidance you need to make a lasting impact in your community.
Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™, Fourth Edition
MENTOR’s cornerstone publication, the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™, details research-informed and practitioner-approved Standards for creating and sustaining quality youth mentoring programs and consequently, impactful mentoring relationships. The Fourth Edition, released in September 2015, reflects the most up-to-date research, practice, and thinking in the mentoring field.
EEPM FAQs
How are the Elements used?
The Elements have traditionally been used by the youth mentoring field in a variety of ways:
• Programs around the country (and around the world) use the Elements to design and strengthen the
practices they use in implementing their mentoring services, treating the publication as a roadmap to
program quality and alignment with the latest research.
• Funders and policymakers use them to draft grantee requirements and ensure that their mentoring
investments are built on a solid programmatic foundation.
• Training and technical assistance providers use them in coaching and professional development
opportunities as an essential resource to increase programs’ capacity and use of evidence-based practices.
• Evaluators and researchers use them as guideposts for how to measure the quality and fidelity of program
implementation and as potential moderators of program outcomes.
The main Elements publication contains information on how individual mentoring programs might apply the
Standards, Benchmarks, and Enhancements of the Elements to their own work.
The National Mentoring Resource Center hosts a wealth of resources on what works in mentoring. Here are some of our favorite areas:
Key Topics in Mentoring: Guides with content about specific populations of youth in mentoring, as well as specific mentoring program types
Resources for Mentoring Programs: Collection of mentoring handbooks, curricula, manuals, and other resources that practitioners can use to implement and further develop program practices
Measurement Guidance Toolkit for Mentoring Programs: Evaluation! A go-to resource of recommended instruments for measuring key youth outcomes in mentoring programs
Tools to Strengthen Match Support & Closure: Tools developed to address a major challenge in service delivery (as identified by growing body of research)–the proper support and eventual closure of mentoring matches
MENTORING 101
Training Includes The Basic Principles Around Mentoring. Provide basic knowledge around
mentoring philosophy and best practices in mentoring. Trainees will be given the
opportunity learn more about the Mentoring Connector and opportunities that exist for
volunteer mentoring.
Cultural Competency, Awareness, and Humility in Mentoring
Training on Understanding How To Eliminate Implicit and Explicit Biases When Working As A Mentor. Training will discuss the importance of being Culturally relevant and aware with mentoring. Information will include various components of Cultural Competence, awareness, microaggressions, and crucial conversations in mentoring.
Building Relationships
Training Strategies on Deepening the Mentor/Mentee Relationship. Share various best practices to
improve overall mentoring relationship that allows growth and development for mentor program, mentee and
mentor.
Mentor Relationship Closure
Training and Discussion on Best Practices and Strategies To Close Mentoring Relationships in a lasting impactful way that is not harmful for youth. Assist With Feedback, survey development, and Success Of The Mentoring Relationships.
Virtual Mentoring
Training and Discussion on how to strengthen or transition to Virtual Mentoring to expand your mentoring programs and relationships, and reach. Contact us for training, resources, and support.
Connect, Focus, Grow
Training on How to transition leadership, and employees to adapt a mentoring mindset while engaging with youth workers/interns at the office. The goal to is strengthen relationships and lead with impact and intentionality.
Contact us for training, resources, and support.
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