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Mentoring Resources from UDayton

A list of mentoring resources provided by the Women’s Center at University of Dayton. The website includes guides, handbooks, and various pages for both mentors and mentees.

Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County

The mission of the Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County is to encourage, develop, strengthen and sustain quality mentoring relationships in our region.

Making the Grade: A Guide to Incorporating Academic Achievement into Mentoring Programs

The U.S. Department of Education offers a comprehensive guide to shifting mentoring programs’ emphases to academic achievement.

Helping Young People Succeed

This report offers suggestions to improve and sustain relations between youth development organizations and schools. Additionally, it outlines aspects of positive youth development, such as physical development, intellectual development, psychological and emotional development, and social development.

Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring

This guide offers information for starting a mentorship program. Elements include mentor/mentee recruitment, mentor training, matching participants, and monitoring outcomes.

Eight Principles for Managing Mentors

This fact sheet provides programs with a check list to ensure they are meeting the 8 principles for managing mentors.

Educause

Find information on helping pick your perfect mentoring style and situation, mentoring functions, and a step-by-step walk through the different phases your mentor-mentee relationship will go through.

Education Northwest: Resources

With hundreds of resources, you can search by a specific topic or focus area.

Change 2 Lives—Become a Mentor

This blog, sponsored by Youth Mentoring Connection (YMC) out of Los Angeles, informs you on programs and activities the YMC have executed successfully. If you are stumped on new activities to positively impact your mentees, head over to this blog and start brainstorming.

Youth Leadership America

The mission of Youth Leadership America (YLA) is to develop and inspire America’s young leaders through collaboration with community leaders and mentorship for the collective benefit of the students and the community.

MENTOR – National Mentoring Partnership

MENTOR helps children by providing a public voice, developing and delivering resources to mentoring programs nationwide and by promoting quality for mentoring through standards, cutting-edge research and state of the art tools.

Connecting to Success: Mentoring through Technology to Promote Student Achievement

Connecting to Success (CTS) is an innovative model for mentoring that connects young people with disabilities to caring adults in the community. In this model, the primary communication between mentor and mentee is through e-mail with occasional face-to-face meetings incorporated into the program. CTS was developed by the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) at the University of Minnesota. The goal of CTS is to help youth develop social competence, academic motivation, career awareness, and improved reading and writing skills.