Publications


Mentoring


Title: Check & Connect
Link: http://ici.umn.edu/checkandconnect/default.html
Description: The Check & Connect model uses mentors to promote students' engagement with school, reduce dropout, and increase school completion. The Check & Connect Web site offers information regarding the Check & Connect model, current projects and initiatives, related publications, upcoming presentations and workshops, and staff.
The Check & Connect Web site contains information directed towards educators, researchers, administrators, and others interested in helping youth remain engaged in school and on track to graduate.

Title: Disability Mentoring Day
Link: http://www.dmd-aapd.org
Description: The Disability Mentoring Day Web site gives information and resources pertaining to Disability Mentoring Day, including: contact information for state and local coordinators, fact sheets, and tool kits. Disability Mentoring Day is held in October.

Title: Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota
Link: http://www.mentoringworks.org
Description: The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota's mission is to connect youth with quality mentoring and economic self-sufficiency experiences.

Title: Sharing our Strengths
Link: http://www.sharingourstrengths.com
Description: Sharing Our Strength's (SOS) is Missouri's parent-to-parent/peer support network for parents of children with developmental disabilities or special healthcare needs, individuals with disabilities, and professionals.

Title: Tool for Mentoring Adolescents
Link: http://www.mentoringworks.org/Traini
ing_Institute_Tools_and_Resources.html
Description: Tools for Mentoring Adolescents was developed by the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota in collaboration with the Search Institute to support and strengthen relationships between mentors and mentees. Resources are designed to give new ideas and insights for mentors and mentor program staff to enhance relationships with teens, and can also assist in recruiting more community members to support young people during their ever-changing, but always interesting, adolescent years.

Title: Paving the Way to Work: A Guide to Career-Focused Mentoring
Link: http://www.ncwd-youth.info/resources_&_Publications/mentoring.html
Description: Paving the Way to Work: A Guide to Career-Focused Mentoring was developed by the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) specifically to address the needs of youth with disabilities during their transition from school to work.
Source: NCLD-Youth

Title: Connecting to Success: Mentoring through Technology to Promote Student Achievement
Link: http://ici1.umn.edu/ementoring/CTS_Training_Manual.pdf
Description: Connecting to Success (CTS) is an innovative model for mentoring that connects young
people with disabilities to caring adults in the community. In this model, the primary communication between mentor and mentee is through e-mail with occasional face-to-face meetings incorporated into the program. CTS was developed by the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) at the University of Minnesota. The goal of CTS is to help youth develop social competence, academic motivation, career awareness, and improved reading and writing skills.
Source: NCLD/Youth

Title: Peer Mentor Guide
Link: http://interwork.sdsu.edu/cel/documents/CELPeerMentorTrainingGuide.DOC
Description: This handbook, designed by the Center for Emerging Leadership (CEL) (http://interwork.sdsu.edu/cel/index.htm), provides information about the important things that mentors need to know concerning their employment with CEL.

The guide provides information about the activities that mentors will be performing as a Peer Mentor or Ambassador, with examples of the documents that CEL uses to keep track of these activities, and an example of a time sheet.

This guide also contains important information, such as Time Sheet Due Dates, Holidays observed during the upcoming year, and what mentors should do if injured while at work.
Source: Center for Emerging Leadership

Title: The Pathways Center Mentoring Resources
Link: http://www.ipsiiinc.com/new_page_11.htm
Description: The Pathways Center is a YITRC grantee located in Minneapolis, MN. This page of The Pathways Center's Web site contains links and information on mentoring and youth leadership.
Source: The Pathways Center

Title: National Mentoring Center Resources
Link: http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/nmc_pubs.php
Description: The National Mentoring Center (NMC) has updated and revised several of its key publications. The Providing Quality Youth Mentoring in Schools and Communities series offer practitioners a research-based model for designing and implementing a successful youth mentoring program. The series provides both general program development tools, as well as specific resources to address key areas such as training volunteers and planning for program sustainability. The six revised titles in the series can be downloaded (in PDF format) from the NMC Web site.
Source: EST

Title: Effective Mentor Recruitment
Link: http://www.edmentoring.org/pubs/recruitment.pdf
Description: This document, published by the National Mentoring Center in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education, explores many of the reasons recruitment efforts sometimes fall short and offers some simple things your program can do to focus your volunteer search and
build a framework for recruitment success. Chapter titles include: Guiding Principles of Effective Mentor Recruitment, Preparing to Recruit, Recruitment Methods, and Making a Recruitment Plan.
Source: EST

Title: Plotting the Course for Success
Link: http://www.ncld-youth.info/Downloads/mentor_guide.pdf
Description: This individualized mentoring plan guides mentors and mentees through a number of activities to help them think about a young person’s developmental needs and goals, and what sorts of activities, experiences, and connections can help them achieve them. Not only does this plan outline specific activities and action items for the mentee, but it also enables the mentor to have an opportunity to express how he or she would like to grow in the relationship. Driven by youth with disabilities and grounded in the research based fields of youth development and leadership (learning, connecting, thriving, working, and leading), this plan will guide mentors and mentees as they “plot the course” to help youth and emerging leaders make a successful transition from youth to adulthood.
Source: NCLD/Youth

Title: Best Practices Guide in Mentoring Youth With Disabilities
Link: http://pyd.squarespace.com/storage/guidebook.pdf
Description: This guidebook, created by Partners for Youth with Disabilities, describes best practices and strategies for mentoring youth with disabilities. The guide includes suggestions for starting a program, development, evaluation, and much more.
Source: EST