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Mentorship Training Program: The 6 Skills Your Mentors Need to Learn That Strengthen Your Program’s Value
There are many crucial elements to learning mentoring. Find out the elements that your mentorship training needs to cover to enhance your organization. Connecting with a mentee requires a certain skillset. Discover the top mentoring skills that you can use in training new mentors.
5 Tips for Onboarding New Volunteer Mentors to Your Program
Every mentoring program has common elements but their uniqueness is important, but new mentors need to know about the specific history, policies, rules, and regulation of your program. It’s important for mentors to know about your program, not just mentoring as a whole—but what it means to be a mentor in our program. Read more »
Mentoring Guidelines to Support a Safe and Ethical Program
Mentoring comes with rules, boundaries, and policies to ensure the safety of the mentee and mentor. Discover some key areas where mentoring programs need to create and implement policies and practices to reduce risk.
Professional Development of Mentoring Program Staff: Mentoring Best Practices That Your Team Needs to Master
The heart and soul of an effective mentoring program are the staff who run the program. They are the unsung heroes and engines that host and support everyone involved in a mentoring relationship, from the youth participants to their parents to their mentors
Your How-to Guide to Start a Mentoring Program
Decades of research have documented that youth and adolescents who have a mentor are less likely to skip school, more likely to hold leadership positions, and are more likely to volunteer. The impact mentoring has on children can positively affect them for the rest of their lives, but there is a gap. Millions of youth across America would benefit from a relationship with a mentor or trusted non-parental adult, but don’t have access to this type of person in their lives. More mentoring programs are needed to empower youth and positively impact the community.
Program-wide Mentoring Goals That Reach Every Mentoring Pair
Mentoring goals differ across positive youth development programs. It’s important to identify the mentoring goals of your program as well as the goals for each individual mentee. Find out how to create goals that support each match.
Equipping Your Mentoring Program for Effective Mentor Orientation
Orientation and training are often used interchangeably. Yet, they are different experiences that serve different purposes. In the context of a mentoring program, orientation introduces volunteers to a new experience, whereas training teaches new skills and influences attitudes and beliefs that are supportive of the mentoring relationship. An orientation covers the essential historical information about your mentoring program, mentoring guidelines, the population of mentees involved, the relevant policies and procedures, a clear and concise program mission statement, and the desired goals.
What to Look for in a Mentor Training Course
The foundation for engaging volunteers to be impactful mentors is an evidence-based, interactive training program. The ultimate goal is that the mentoring relationship will affect, in some way, the course of the lives of mentees. It is a rewarding experience, and it is made safer and more effective with training that builds self-efficacy.
Mentoring Matching: Best Practices in Pairing Mentors and Mentees
Matching or pairing mentors with mentees for achieving maximally positive outcomes is the goal of any mentoring program. Long-term mentoring relationships, lasting one year or more, typically result in the most effective youth outcomes. Cultivating those beneficial relationships begins with finding the right fit between mentors and mentees.