TOPIC: Mentoring

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Articles

• Please also refer to Section I of Rebuilding Community: A Guidebook for Learning Supports for the segment entitled "Moving Diamond: Volunteer Mentoring."

Technical Aid Packet

• Volunteers to Help Teachers and Schools Address Barriers to Learning Packet:
• From our Welcoming and Involving New Students and Families Packet:
• Please refer to the section of "Appendix F: Community Outreach for Involvement in Schooling" entitled Mentor/Volunteer Programs
• Welcoming: A Special Friend for a New Student

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning Packet:

General

• Adults do Matter to Kids: The Potential Role of an Adult Mentor in Influencing High-Risk Behaviors in Adolescents
• Evaluating Your Program: A Beginner's Self-Evaluation Workbook for Mentoring Programs
• Make a Friend: Be a Peer Mentor
• Mentor: Expanding the World of Quality Mentoring
• Mentor Recruitment Kit, from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Mentoring - A Proven Delinquency Prevention Strategy
• The Mentoring of Disadvantaged Youth
• Same-Race and Cross-Race Matching
• School-Based Mentoring: A closer look
• Supporting Mentors
• Teacher Mentoring: A Critical Review
• Teachers as Learners: How Peer Mentoring Can Improve Teaching
• Tutor/Mentor Connection
• U.S. Department of Education: Mentoring Resource Center

Policy

• Generic Mentoring Program Policy and Procedure Manual
• Recruiting, Supporting, Training Mentors(2001)Technical assistance packets

Program's, Guides

• Building a Sustainable Mentoring Program: A Framework for Resource Development Planning
• Effective Mentor Recruitment: Getting Organized, Getting Results
• Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development
• Going the Distance: A Guide to Building Lasting Relationships in Mentoring Programs
• Guide to Screening and Background Checks (U.S. Department of Education Mentoring Program)
• Making the Grade: A Guide to Incorporating Academic Achievement into Mentoring Programs and Relationships
• Measuring the Quality of Mentor Youth Relationships: A Tool for Mentoring Programs
• Mentoring Program Development: A Start-up Toolkit
• Mentoring in Schools
• Mentoring Sexual Minority Youth
• Ongoing Training for Mentors: 12 Interactive Sessions for U.S. Department of Education Mentoring Programs
• Preparing Participants for Mentoring: The U.S. Department of Education Mentoring Program's Guide to Initial Training of Volunteers, Youth, and Parents
• Read with Me: A Guide for Student Volunteers Starting Early Childhood Literacy Programs.
• Sustainability Planning and Resource Development for Youth Mentoring Programs
• Training New Mentees: A Manual for Preparing Youth in Mentoring Programs
• Yes, You Can: A Guide to Establishing Mentoring Programs to Prepare Youth for College
• Mentoring Children in Foster Care: Considerations and Partnership Strategies for Senior Corps Directors
• Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents

Studies

• Group Mentoring: A Study of Mentoring Groups in Three Programs
• Mentoring: A promising strategy for youth development

• Evaluating your Program: A Beginner's Self-Evaluation Workbook for Mentoring Programs
• Project K.I.C.K., A School-Based Drug Education Research Project --Peers, Parents and Kids
• Mentoring Programs for At-Risk Youth
• On the Scene: Academic Growth Group and Mentoring Program for Potential Drop-Outs

• Mentoring Projects, Resources & Links
• The Mentors in Schools Network
• National Mentoring Center
• Peer Resources
• The National Mentoring Partnership
• The National Peer Helpers Association
• Telementoring Programs Designed to Help Students Master Challenging Mathematics, Science and Technology

• Campbell-Whatley, Gloria D.; Algozzine, Bob; Obiakor, Festus. Using mentoring to improve academic programming for African American male youths with mild disabilities. School Counselor. 1997 May. 44 (5): p. 362-367.
• Dearden, Jackie. Cross-age peer mentoring in action: The process and outcomes. Educational Psychology in Practice. 1998 Jan. 13 (4): p. 250-257.
• Casey, Kerry M. A.; Shore, Bruce M. Mentor's contributions to gifted adolescents' affective, social, and vocational development. Roeper Review. The Roeper School: US, 2000 Jun. 22 (4): p. 227-230.
• Dennison, Susan A win-win peer mentoring and tutoring program: A collaborative model. Journal of Primary Prevention. 2000 Spr. 20 (3): p. 161-174.
• Einolf, Louise H. Mentoring to prevent school drop outs. Journal of Behavioral Education. 1995 Dec. 5 (4): p. 447-459.
• Ellis, Julia; Small-McGinley, Jan; Hart, Susan. Mentor-supported literacy development in elementary schools. Alberta Journal of Educational Research. 1998 Sum. 44 (2): p. 149-162.
• Flynn, Linda. The adolescent parenting program: Improving outcomes through mentorship. Public Health Nursing. 1999 Jun. 16 (3): p. 182-189.
• Gilligan, Robbie. Enhancing the resilience of children and young people in public care by mentoring their talents and interests. Child & Family Social Work. 1999 Aug. 4 (3): p. 187-196.
• Hamilton, Stephen F.; Darling, Nancy. Mentors in adolescents' lives.  In: Klaus Hurrelmann, Ed; Stephen F. Hamilton, Ed; et al. Social problems and social contexts in adolescence:  Perspectives across boundaries.. Aldine De Gruyter: New York, NY, USA, 1996. p. 199-215 of xiv, 299pp.
• Kalbfleisch, Pamela J.; Anderson, Arlyn. Mentoring across generations: Culture, family, and mentoring relationships.  In: Hana S. Noor Al-Deen, Ed; et al. Cross-cultural communication and aging in the United States.. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers: Mahwah, NJ, USA, 1997. p. 97-120 of xxii, 257pp.
• McKenzie, Julie; Mikkelsen, Edwin J.; Stelk, Wayne; Bereika, Gerald; Monack, Donald. The role of a home-based mentor program in the psychiatric continuum of care for children and adolescents.  In: Lee Combrinck-Graham, Ed; et al. Children in families at risk:  Maintaining the connections.. The Guilford Press: New York, NY, USA, 1995. p. 209-227 of xvii, 429pp.
• Muscott, Howard S.; O'Brien, Sara Talis. Teaching character education to students with behavioral and learning disabilities through mentoring relationships. Education & Treatment of Children. 1999 Aug. 22 (3): p. 373-390.
• Rhodes, Jean E.; Haight, Wendy L.; Briggs, Ernestine C. The influence of mentoring on the peer relationships of foster youth in relative and nonrelative care. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 1999. 9 (2): p. 185-201.
• Schatz, Ellie.  Mentors: Matchmaking for young people. Journal of Secondary Gifted Education. 1999-2000 Win. 11 (2): p. 67-87.
• Terry, Julie. A community/school mentoring program for elementary students. Professional School Counseling. 1999 Feb. 2 (3): p. 237-240.
• Waller, Margaret A.; Brown, Bernice; Whittle, Brenda. Mentoring as a bridge to positive outcomes for teen mothers and their children. Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal. 1999 Dec. 16 (6): p. 467-480.

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