Toolkit: How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program

Posted by on August 5, 2005

[posted from Promising Practices in After School listserv]

MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership has just released a comprehensive tool kit that shows organizations How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program Using the Elements of Effective Practice. The new tool kit offers step-by-step instructions that programs can follow to implement and adhere to the four components of the Elements?Program Design and Planning, Program Management, Program Operations and Program Evaluation. It also contains a CD with more than 160 tools and templates that mentoring programs can customize to suit their individual program needs. And the best part is that organizations can download the tool kit and tools for free at http://www.mentoring.org/eeptoolkit.

In addition to step-by-step instructions, the kit offers nearly 100 references to additional resources and includes a “Checklist of Program Progress” for each of the four main components of the Elements. Programs can use these checklists to see how well they are progressing in implementing the components. Funding for the tool kit was provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.