Elements for Effective Mentoring
A checklist of National Standards for mentoring programs. Please fill out the survey to the best of your knowledge as the program is running now, not historically.
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Standard 1: Recruitment
B.1.1 Program engages in recruitment  strategies that realistically portray the benefits, practices, supports, and challenges of mentoring in the program.  
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B.1.2* Program utilizes recruitment  strategies that build positive attitudes and  emotions about mentoring.
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B.1.3* Program recruits mentors whose skills, motivations, and backgrounds best  match the goals and structure of the  program.
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B.1.4*Program encourages mentors to assist with recruitment efforts by providing them with resources to ask individuals they know, who meet the eligibility criteria of the  program, to be a mentor.
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B.1.5* Program trains and encourages mentees to identify and recruit appropriate mentors for themselves, when relevant.
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B.1.6* Program engages in recruitment strategies that realistically portray the benefits, practices, supports, and challenges of being mentored in the program.
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B.1.7 Program recruits mentees whose needs best match the services offered by the  program.
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Standard 2: Screenings
B.2.1* Program has established criteria for accepting mentors into the program as well as criteria for disqualifying mentor applicants.
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B.2.2 Prospective mentors complete a  written application that includes questions  designed to help assess their safety and  suitability for mentoring a youth.
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B.2.3 Program conducts at least one  face-to-face interview with each prospective  mentor that includes questions designed to  help the program assess his or her suitability  for mentoring a youth.
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B.2.4 Program conducts a comprehensive criminal background check on prospective adult mentors, including searching a national  criminal records database, along with sex  offender and child abuse registries and, when  relevant, driving records.  
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B.2.5 Program conducts reference check interviews with multiple adults who know an applicant (ideally, both personal and  professional references) that include  questions to help assess his or her suitability  for mentoring a youth.
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B.2.6* Prospective mentors agree in writing to a one-year (calendar or school) minimum commitment for the mentoring relationship, or a minimum time commitment that is required by the mentoring program.
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B.2.7* Prospective mentors agree in writing to participate in face-to-face meetings with their mentees that average a  minimum of once a week and a total of four  or more hours per month over the course of  the relationship, or at a minimum frequency  and amount of hours that are required by  their mentoring program.
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Standard 3: Training
B.3.1 Program provides a minimum of two hours of pre-match, in-person, mentor  training.  
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B.3.2a Program provides pre-match training for mentors on the following topics: Program requirements (e.g., match  length, match frequency, duration of  visits, protocols for missing, being late to  meetings, and match termination).
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B.3.2b Program provides pre-match training for mentors on the following topics: Mentors’ goals and expectations for the  mentee, parent or guardian, and the  mentoring relationship.
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B.3.2c Program provides pre-match  training for mentors on the following topics:  Mentors’ obligations and appropriate  roles.
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B.3.2d Program provides pre-match  training for mentors on the following topics:   Relationship development and  maintenance.
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B.3.2e Program provides pre-match  training for mentors on the following topics: Ethical and safety issues that may arise  related to the mentoring relationship.
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B.3.2f Program provides pre-match  training for mentors on the following topics: Effective closure of the mentoring  relationship.
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B.3.2g Program provides pre-match  training for mentors on the following topics: Sources of assistance available to support  mentors.
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B.3.2h Program provides pre-match  training for mentors on the following topics: Opportunities and challenges associated  with mentoring specific populations of  youth (e.g., children with an incarcerated  parent, youth involved in the juvenile  justice system, youth in foster care, high  school dropouts), if relevant.
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B.3.2i Program provides pre-match  training for mentors on the following topics:  Initiating the mentoring relationship.
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B.3.2j Program provides pre-match  training for mentors on the following topics: Developing an effective, positive  relationship with mentee’s family, if  relevant.
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B.3.3a* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served: Appropriate physical contact
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B.3.3b* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served:  Contact with mentoring program (e.g.,  who to contact, when to contact)
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B.3.3c* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served:   Relationship monitoring requirements  (e.g., response time, frequency, schedule)
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B.3.3d* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population served: Approved activities
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B.3.3e* Program provides pre-match training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served: Mandatory reporting requirements  associated with suspected child abuse or  neglect, and suicidality and homicidality
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B.3.3f* Program provides pre-match training for the mentor on the following risk management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served: Confidentiality and anonymity  
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B.3.3g* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served: Digital and social media use  
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B.3.3h* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served:  Overnight visits and out of town travel
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B.3.3i* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served:  Money spent on mentee and mentoring  activities
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B.3.3j* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served:  Transportation
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B.3.3k* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served:  Health and medical care
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B.3.3l* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served: Discipline
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B.3.3m* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served: Substance use  
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B.3.3n* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served: Firearms and weapons
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B.3.3o* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served:  Inclusion of others in match meetings  (e.g., siblings, mentee’s friends)
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B.3.3p* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served: Photo and image use
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B.3.3q* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served: Evaluation and use of data
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B.3.3r* Program provides pre-match  training for the mentor on the following risk  management policies that are matched to the  program model, setting, and population  served: Grievance procedures
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B.3.4 Program uses training practices and  materials that are informed by empirical  research or are themselves empirically  evaluated.
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Standard 4: Matching
B.4.1 Program considers the  characteristics of the mentor and mentee  (e.g., interests; proximity; availability; age;  gender; race; ethnicity; personality;  expressed preferences of mentor, mentee,  and parent or guardian; goals; strengths;  previous experiences) when making matches.
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B.4.2 Program arranges and documents  an initial meeting between the mentor and  mentee as well as, when relevant, with the  parent or guardian.  
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B.4.3 Program staff member should be on  site and/or present during the initial match  meeting of the mentor and mentee, and,  when relevant, parent or guardian.  
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B.4.4* Mentor, mentee, a program staff  member, and, when relevant, the mentee’s  parent or guardian, meet in person to sign a  commitment agreement consenting to the  program’s rules and requirements (e.g.,  frequency, intensity and duration of match  meetings; roles of each person involved in  the mentoring relationship; frequency of  contact with program), and risk management  policies.
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Standard 5: Monitor and Support
B.5.1 Program contacts mentors and  mentees at a minimum frequency of twice  per month for the first month of the match  and once a month thereafter.
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B.5.2* At each mentor monitoring contact,  program staff should ask mentors about  mentoring activities, mentee outcomes, child  safety issues, the quality of the mentoring  relationship, and the impact of mentoring on  the mentor and mentee using a standardized  procedure.
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B.5.4 Program follows evidence-based  protocol to elicit more in-depth assessment  from mentors and mentees about the quality  of their mentoring relationships, and uses  scientifically-tested relationship assessment  tools.
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B.5.6* At each monitoring contact with a  responsible adult in the mentee’s life,  program asks about mentoring activities,  mentee outcomes, child safety issues, the  quality of the mentoring relationship, and the  impact of mentoring on the mentee using a  standardized procedure.*
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B.5.8 Program documents information  about each mentor-mentee meeting  including, at a minimum, the date, length,  and description of activity completed.
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B.5.9 Program provides mentors with  access to relevant resources (e.g., expert  advice from program staff or others,  publications, Web-based resources,  experienced mentors) to help mentors  address challenges in their mentoring  relationships as they arise.
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B.5.11 Program provides one or more  opportunities per year for post-match mentor  training.
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B.5.12* Program provides mentors with  feedback on a regular basis regarding their  mentees’ outcomes and the impact of  mentoring on their mentees to continuously  improve mentee outcomes and encourage  mentor retention.
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Standard 6: Closure
B.6.1 Program has a procedure to manage  anticipated closures, when members of the  match are willing and able to engage in the  closure process.  
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B.6.2 Program has a procedure to manage  unanticipated closures, when members of  the match are willing and able to engage in  the closure process.  
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B.6.3* Program has a procedure to  manage closure when one member of the  match is unable or unwilling to engage in the  closure process.
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B.6.4 Program conducts exit interview  with mentors and mentees, and when  relevant, with parents or guardians.
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B.6.5* Program has a written policy and  procedure, when relevant, for managing  rematching.
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B.6.7g* Regardless of the reason for  closure, the mentoring program should have  a discussion with mentors that includes the  following topics of conversation:  Creation of a plan for the last match  meeting, if possible
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B.6.9 Program has a written public  statement to parents or guardians, if relevant,  as well as to mentors and mentees that  outline the terms of match closure and the  policies for mentor/mentee contact after a  match ends (e.g., including contacts using  digital or social media).
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