TOPIC: Mentoring (including peer mentoring and peer tutoring)

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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
• School-based Mutual Support Groups 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

Information Resource
• College Mentors for High School Students
• Cross-Age Peer Mentorship Programs in Schools
• Peer Tutoring: Part of Learning Supports
• A Student-initiated, Student-run, and Student-funded Center for Retaining Underrepresented Minority University Students
• About Student Peer Mentoring
• University Volunteer Tutor Programs and Secondary School Classrooms: Outline Focused on Key Questions and Concerns

Practice and Guidance Notes
• Guide for Planning Coaching for SEAs/LEAs to Establish a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Guiding and Supporting Volunteers
• Natural Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Learning and MH
• Volunteers as an Invaluable Resource
• Welcoming Strategies for Newly Arrived Students and Their Families

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

General
• Adults do Matter to Kids: The Potential Role of an Adult Mentor in Influencing High-Risk Behaviors in Adolescents
• Building Effective Peer Mentoring Programs
• Examining Youth Mentoring Services Across America: Findings from the 2016 National Mentoring Program Survey
• Exploring Change Processes in School-Based Mentoring for Bullied Children
• Mentor: Expanding the World of Quality Mentoring
• Mentoring Relationship Quality Profiles and Their Association With Urban, Low-Income Youth’s Academic Outcomes
• Relational Experiences in School-Based Mentoring: The Mediating Role of Rejection Sensitivity
• The role of family relationships in youth mentoring: An ecological perspective
• The Role of Program-Supported Mentoring Relationships in Promoting Youth Mental Health, Behavioral and Developmental Outcomes
• Spotlight on youth mentoring
• Striking the Balance: The Relative Benefits of Goal- and Youth-Focused Approaches to Youth Mentoring Relationships
• Teachers as Learners: How Peer Mentoring Can Improve Teaching
• Tutor/Mentor Connection
• The Mentoring Effect
• Using College Students as Mentors and Tutors

Policy
• Generic Mentoring Program Policy and Procedure Manual

Programs, Guides
• Designing Effective Mentoring Programs for Disadvantaged Youth
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• Effectiveness of Peer Mentoring Programs
• Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development
• School-Based Mentoring Resources
• Sustainability Planning and Resource Development for Youth Mentoring Programs
• The Effect of Youth Mentoring Programs: A Meta-analysis ofOutcome Studies
• Training New Mentees: A Manual for Preparing Youth in Mentoring Programs
• A Win-Win Peer Mentoring and Tutoring Program: A Collaborative Model
• Yes, You Can: A Guide to Establishing Mentoring Programs to Prepare Youth for College

Studies
• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: A Qualitative Interview Study of How and Why Youth Mentoring Relationships End
• Effects of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Community-Based Mentoring Program on social-emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes of participating youth
• The Effects of Mentoring Programs on Emotional Well-Being in Youth
• The power of connectedness: Associations between caring non-parental adult relationships, school attendance, and discipline among foster-involved youth
• The Effects of Cross-Age Peer Mentoring on Adolescent Mentors

• The Mentoring Project
• Education Northwest
• National Mentoring Resouce Center
• The National Mentoring Partnership
• Tutor/Mentor Connection

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