Working With Mentors

Recruitment Strategies, Screening, Training, Matching

Recruitment Strategies

• Finding Mentors. EMT Online University. www.emt-online.org

• Postcard Campaign. National Mentoring Center. http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/postcard.html

• Recruiting Mentors: A Guide to Finding Volunteers to Work With Youth. 
  (Technical Assistance Packet #3). National Mentoring Center.
  Drawing on effective practices used by volunteer-based organizations and on research findings about mentoring, this packet describes recruitment strategies that programs can adapt to meet their particular circumstances. It offers key steps in developing and implementing any targeted mentor recruitment plan, and also looks more specifically at approaches for recruiting two large groups of potential mentors: college students and older adults. Download File

• Recruiting Male Volunteers: A Guide Based on Exploratory Research. Stephanie T. Blackman. Corporation For National Service. Download File

• Recruiting and Retaining Quality Mentors. Mark Freeman and Jerry Sherk, M.A. The EMT Group, Inc.
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• Recruitment. Elsy Arevalo's Virtual Training on Recruitment. http://www.gse.uci.edu/ngis/mentoring/

• Recruitment Tips for Mentoring. Sheryl Nefstead and Scott Nefstead. University of Minnesota Extension Service. http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/citizenship/DH6497.html

• Running a Safe and Effective Mentoring Program - Recruitment. Friends for Youth Mentoring Institute.
  www.friendsforyouth.org

• Sample Job Descriptions and Duties in a Mentoring Program. Mentoring Institute, Article.
  http://www.homestead.com/prosites-ffy/files/Job_Descriptions.pdf

• Volunteer Position Description. State Franchise Tax Board for the Schools Partnership Program.
  (file: Volunteer Opp Bulletin 3-04). Download File

• Volunteer Recruitment. Mentoring Institute. Newsletter: Connections. http://www.homestead.com/prosites-ffy/files/Fall2003.ind.PDF

• Criminal History Record Check. John C. Patterson. Nonprofit Risk Management Center.  http://nonprofitrisk.org/csb/csb_crim.htm#crimtop

• Document Kit: Mentor Screening. Friends for Youth Mentoring Institute. www.friendsforyouth.org

• Managing Volunteers Within the Law. Charles Tremper, Anna Seidman and Suzanne Tufts. On hiring/firing volunteers http://www.nonprofitrisk.org/csb/csb_mgv.htm#mgvtop

• More Than a Matter of Trust: Managing the Risks of Mentoring. Nonprofit Risk Management Center. http://www.nonprofitrisk.org/

• Running a Safe and Effective Mentoring Program, Section 2: Volunteer Screening. Friends for Youth Mentoring Institute.
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• Volunteer Screening. Mentoring Institute, Newsletter: Connections. http://www.homestead.com/prosites-ffy/files/Copy_of_Spring_2002.pdf

• Volunteer Screening:  Part of an Integrated Risk Management Program. Points of Light Foundation. Download File

• Designing An Effective Training Program For Your Mentors. (2001). The EMT Group, Inc. A one day workshop concentrating on the how to's of developing a mentor training manual and program. www.emt.org/userfiles/DesigningAnEffectiveMentorTraining.PDF

• Designing and Customizing Mentor Training. Center for Applied Research Solutions, Inc. (CARS). http://www.emt.org/userfiles/DesigningMentorTrng.pdf

• Training New Mentors. (Technical Assistance Packet #5). National Mentoring Center.
  An excellent resource for program coordinators and staff trainers, this training outline contains a dozen activities for new mentor orientation. The guide is divided into two sections: Mentors' Roles and Expectations, which focuses on the basics of mentor/mentee relationships, and Speaking of Trust, which highlights listening skills and communication development. All activities come with facilitator notes and handouts, and many contain role-playing exercises to help new mentors understand the relationship from a variety of viewpoints. Download File

• Volunteer Training. Mentoring Institute, Newsletter: Connections. http://www.homestead.com/prosites-ffy/files/Copy_of_Summer_2002.pdf

• Creating and Sustaining A Winning Match. (2000). Dustianne North, M.S.W. and Jerry Sherk, M.A. The EMT Group, Inc. www.emt.org/userfiles/MatchSeries2.pdf

• Same-Race and Cross-Race Matching. (Technical Assistance Packet #7). National Mentoring Center. 
  In an effort to help programs think about the benefits and potential problems surrounding cross-race and same-race matches, the NMC and Public/Private Ventures have developed Same-race and Cross-race Matching, the newest publication in the Technical Assistance Packet series. This guidebook takes an in-depth look at the research into the efficacy of cross-race matches and offers useful advice for program coordinators and case workers. Download File

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