National Success Mentors Initiative Implementation Guide & How Tos

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Implementation Guide: How to Begin

This Guide provides tips on how to implement a Success Mentor model at your school.  It was created for districts, schools, team captains and school partners.

Getting Started

• Success Mentor Getting Started Checklist
• What makes a mentoring program work
• Program Planning Chart
• This Checklist for Developing and Launching a Success Mentors Program lists key steps for district captains, principals and school coordinators to take and resources they should use to implement quality mentoring programs in their schools
• Elementary Success Mentor Toolkit
  This toolkit is designed to help school districts establish an elementary success mentor program, leverage ideas and resources available from national partner organizations as well as the pioneering work of a growing number of local efforts. It is filled with tips, scripts, and a variety of relevant and free materials that you can take and tailor to the needs of your community.
• White House and Department of Education Parent Acknowledgement Letter:
  English
  Español

Mentors

• Recruiting
  • Recruiting and Retaining
  • School-based Success Mentors
  • Supporting Students and their Mentors
    The Mentoring Partnership and Resource Center of Southwestern Pennsylvania, created a training curriculum for mentoring coordinators at schools and districts to ensure that they understand mentoring best practices in their work recruiting, screening, training, monitoring and supporting Success Mentors and students. You can access that full curriculum, including a facilitator’s guide and handouts.
• Applying
  • Mentor Application Sample (Davis Middle School)
  • Volunteer Information Packet Sample, 2016-2017 (San Antonio, TX)
  • Paquete Informativo para Voluntarios, 2016-2017 (San Antonio, TX)
• Training
  • Training New Mentors
    All mentors need thorough training if they are to possess the skills, attitudes, and activity ideas needed to effectively mentor a young person. This guide provides ready-to-use training modules for your program.
  • Training Guide for Volunteer Mentors
  • Talking it Through: Communication Skills for Mentors
    This interactive online training is designed to support mentors who have been matched for a while and are encountering various challenges as their mentees open up and the relationship grows.
  • Ongoing Training for Mentors
  • Mentors supporting Growth Mindset
  • Wellness Mentoring Circles for Young People: A Guide for Facilitators and Mentors
    This resource, provided by Concerned Black Men National’s CARES Mentoring Movement, was originally designed for use in their Wellness Mentoring Circles. It offer groups of young people an opportunity to learn about important aspects of their development, reflect on their experiences with the world around them, and receive support from peers and mentors that can promote healthy behaviors, problem-solving, and general well-being.
  • Developmental Relationships Framework Handout from the Search Institute
    This guide defines a developmental approach to mentoring and actions mentors can take to build positive and meaningful relationships with youth.
  • Guide to Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color
  • A Mentor’s Guide to Youth Development
  • Understanding the Youth Development Model
  • Putting Youth Development Principles To Work in Mentoring Programs
• Support
  • Using Text Messaging to Support Success Mentors
    A guide created by MENTOR’s NY affiliate, Mentor NY, to help schools supplement the supports they provide to their Success Mentors through a text message system that provides critical reminders and helpful resources to support them in building relationships with students.

Mentor Mentee Matching

• Match Rationale Form
• Mentee Matching Form
• Customize Success Mentors for MS and HS

Resources for Mentors

• Fun Activities for Mentors and Mentees
• Making the Most of Morning Calls
• K-12 Journey Map
  This tool is intended to help youth and mentors track important milestones as youth make the journey from school to post-secondary education and career planning.
• Tools for Mentoring Adolescents
  This series of 10 fact sheets for mentors reviews many critical topics related to mentoring youth across the adolescent years.
• Young Men’s Initiative Activity Catalogue
  This guide features fun and thought-provoking games, art projects, theatre skits and role plays, and other one-on-one or group activities.

Resources for Parents

• Guide to Mentoring for Parents and Guardians
  From Education Northwest
• Involving Parents in Mentoring Programs
  From Education Northwest

Weekly Meetings

• Weekly Student Success Summit Meetings
• NYC Attendance Video
  

Partner Organizations

• How To Leverage Community Relationships While Protecting Student Privacy
• Sample Confidentiality Agreement for School-Linked Success Mentors (Community Based Partners, After-School Providers, etc.)

• Attendance Works Sample
• Example data collection forms shared by MBK coordinators in Miami-Dade:
  ~ MBK Sample Mentee Google Doc
  ~ MBK Sample Mentor Google Doc