Your How-to Guide to Start a Mentoring Program
Thinking about starting a mentoring program? Use this helpful guide to find out how to get started. […]
What Is the EEPM and How Can Your Mentoring Program Meet the Standards for the Field?
Implementing the benchmark practices described in the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring (EEPM) is vital for improving your organization’s impact. Train your team to meet these standards and engage in continuous quality improvement activities. [...]
Mentoring Programs for Youth in Foster Care: Preparing Your Mentors
According to the most recent data, more than 400,000 youth are in foster care. Many youth in foster care often share a common struggle — lack of availability or access to quality and consistent relationships [...]
Mentor Training Online: Preparing Your Program for Training in a Virtual World
Is mentor training online worth it? Learn about asynchronous mentoring training, and where to find the most valuable courses that are backed by science. […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
