You have in your hands How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program Using the Elements of Effective Practice, the latest and perhaps most important work in years to advance quality mentoring. This comprehensive tool kit includes tools, templates and advice for implementing and adhering to the second edition of the Elements of Effective Practice—rigorous guidelines that, when followed, will help to ensure quality mentoring. The tool kit was made possible by a generous grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and is the latest offering from MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership and the vital network of State Mentoring Partnerships. For more than a decade, we have been leading the movement to connect America’s young people with caring adult mentors. We serve as the “mentor’s mentor,” providing a wide range of resources and technical assistance to more than 4,300 mentoring programs across the nation. In 1990, we joined with United Way of America to convene a blue-ribbon panel of mentoring experts to produce the nation’s first set of rigorous mentoring guidelines, the first edition of the Elements of Effective Practice. Those Elements served as the gold standard for quality mentoring for more than a decade. Since then, the world of mentoring has changed. New types of mentoring have taken hold, requiring new guidelines. In 2003, through the generosity of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, we again convened a blue-ribbon panel of mentoring experts to produce the second edition of the Elements of Effective Practice, which reflects the latest mentoring research, experience and practices. Among the experts contributing to the effort were two of the nation’s top mentoring researchers: Dr. Jean Rhodes of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Dr. David DuBois of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Whether you are new to mentoring or an old hand, this tool kit will save you time and effort, because it contains materials and information you need to start or maintain a quality mentoring program. The tool kit is written to follow the format of the Elements—but it allows you to take portions of the tool kit in a different order, depending on where you are in starting or strengthening your mentoring program.
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