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Resources - Mentor Recruitment and Screening

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Assessment for Mentoring Programs Integrated into a Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
This TCAM tool outlines a process for Safe Schools/Healthy Students mentoring programs to assess implementation and identify priorities for building program capacity.
Building Staff Capacity, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Evaluation, Implementing Evidence Based Models, Match Closure, Match Support, Mentee Training, Mentor Recruitment and Screening, Mentor Training, Partnership/Collaboration Building, Program Design & Management, Program Outcomes, Program Sustainability, Youth recruitment
Effective Strategies for Providing Quality Youth Mentoring in Schools and Communities: Generic Mentoring Program Policy and Procedure Manual
http://educationnorthwest.org/webfm_send/174
This resource, from Education Northwest, is one part of a series designed to give practitioners tools and ideas that they can use to build quality mentoring programs.
Match Closure, Match Support, Mentee Training, Mentor Recruitment and Screening, Mentor Training, Program Design & Management
Elements of an Effective Speaker’s Bureau Kit
This outline was developed to help mentoring organizations build effective mentor speaker’s bureau kits.
Mentor Recruitment and Screening
Going Beyond the Background Check SAFE Book
http://www.friendsforyouth.org/files/MIpdfs/SAFE_2009Report....
This report on volunteer screening from the Mentoring Institute, provides data from youth-serving programs in San Mateo County.
Mentor Recruitment and Screening
How to Apply for the YouTube Nonprofit Program
Video is a powerful way to show your organization's impact and needs, and with a designated "Nonprofit" channel on YouTube, you can promote events, highlight...
Mentor Recruitment and Screening, Partnership/Collaboration Building
Identifying Your Mentor Market Tool
This tool is designed to help programs identify organizations as potential targets for mentor recruitment.
Mentor Recruitment and Screening, Partnership/Collaboration Building
Key Learnings from Mentoring Research and Implications for Practice
Key Learnings from Mentoring Research and Implications for Practice examines 11 critical questions that have been explored by leading researchers, with the goal of offerin
Building Staff Capacity, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Evaluation, Foster Care, Gang Prevention and Intervention, Implementing Evidence Based Models, Juvenile Justice and Re-entry, Match Support, Mentor Recruitment and Screening, Mentor Training, Program Design & Management, Program Outcomes, Program Sustainability, Youth recruitment
Man up: Recruiting & retaining African American male mentors
http://www.urbanyouth.org/docs/AfricanAmericanMalePerspectiv...
This report examines African American male perspectives on mentoring. It provides recommendations for grassroots organizations, churches and governmental entities involved in...
Mentor Recruitment and Screening
Men in Mentoring Toolkit
http://www.michigan.gov/mentormichigan/0,1607,7-193-27047-21...
This toolkit from Mentor Michigan is designed to provide program staff and their trained mentor recruiters with language and tips to use when asking men to become mentors. The...
Mentor Recruitment and Screening
Mentoring Program Assessment
This TCAM tool outlines a process for mentoring programs to assess implementation and identify priorities for building program capacity.
Building Staff Capacity, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Evaluation, Implementing Evidence Based Models, Match Closure, Match Support, Mentee Training, Mentor Recruitment and Screening, Mentor Training, Partnership/Collaboration Building, Program Design & Management, Program Outcomes, Program Sustainability, Youth recruitment
Nominating Your Mentor: A Step-by-Step Guide
http://www.ngycp.org/etc/mentor/engage.html
This self-paced tutorial from the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program is designed specifically for youth to help guide them through how to identify and ask someone to be their...
Mentee Training, Mentor Recruitment and Screening
Putting the “Men” Back in Mentoring: A look at one of the mentoring movement’s toughest challenges
http://educationnorthwest.org/webfm_send/238
This article from The National Mentoring Center Bulletin gives a deeper understanding of the issues (both internal to the program agency, as well as external) of the reasons why...
Mentor Recruitment and Screening
Recruiting male volunteers: A guide based on exploratory research
http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/online-library/items...
This National Service Fellows Report by Stephanie Blackman explores which programs recruit male volunteers and why some are more successful than others in doing so, motivations...
Mentor Recruitment and Screening
Recruiting Mentors for Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice or Foster Care System
http://msiy.edc.org/publications/MSIY%20publications/MSIY_Re...
A mentor can change the life of a young person involved in the juvenile justice or foster care system, but recruiting mentors to work with system-involved youth can be challenging.
Foster Care, Juvenile Justice and Re-entry, Mentor Recruitment and Screening
TCAM Mentor Recruitment Plan Calculator
This calculator is designed to help programs develop a recruitment plan by calculating the match goal for the year, factoring in how many matches have already been made and how...
Mentor Recruitment and Screening
TCAM Quarterly Recruitment Plan Template
Having a recruitment plan helps track recruitment activities and helps keep staff accountable to deadlines.
Mentor Recruitment and Screening
Ten Strategies for Recruiting African American Male Mentors
http://msiy.edc.org/publications/MSIY%20publications/MSIY_10...
Mentoring programs often find it challenging to recruit African American adult men to serve as volunteer mentors for African American male youth—especially young people...
Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Mentor Recruitment and Screening
The Wisdom of Age: A Handbook for Staff
http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_1216.pdf
This handbook from MENTOR is a comprehensive resource designed to offer program staff with specific tools, templates, training exercises and promising practices to best recruit,...
Match Support, Mentor Recruitment and Screening, Mentor Training