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Factsheet 1: 8 Principles for Managing Mentors - A Program Check List
This factsheet provides practitioners with 8 simple prinicples to follow to adequately support mentors in order to retain a high quality pool of volunteers. Research by Grossman and Tierney has shown that mentors who are supported throughout the mentoring relationship by the program are retained for longer and their skill level improves dramatically, therefore providing a better quality of service to the young people they are supporting.
Click here to download factsheet no. 1 (PDF, 815kb)
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Factsheet 2: Training Mentors
This factsheet provides programs with tips on how to create a training program for your mentors including tips on training adults and writing a training manual. Providing comprehensive, relevant and engaging training for your group of incoming mentors is vital to the success of your program. A well trained mentor has the opportunity to positively impact the lives of mentees. Mentor training that is designed to equip mentors with resources and knowledge, develop skills and increase confidence, will give your mentees, mentors and the community, the best opportunity for growth.
Click here to download the factsheet (PDF, 1.34Mb)
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Factsheet 3: Recruiting Mentors
This factsheet provides programs with tips on how to recruit mentors for their mentoring program. Recruiting mentors and mentees can be time consuming, costly and at may not have the desired results. With a well prepared plan in place, your recruitment can become sustainable and highly regarded. Attracting the right volunteers to match with the young people in your program is a vital ingredient in the overall success of reaching both program and mentee goals.
Click here to download the factsheet (PDF, 1.90Mb)
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Factsheet 4: Program Sustainability
This factsheet provides programs with tips on how to make their program more sustainable. Sustainably managed programs that provide a stable source of mentors over an extensive period of time best meet the needs of the young people they aim to help. Research demonstrates that quality mentoring relationships that last for twelve months or longer result in more sustained outcomes for mentees. To ensure your program has maximum opportunity to provide a service after your allocated grant period, sustainability planning must be tackled during the planning stages and considered a priority for ongoing action and development.
Click here to download the factsheet (PDF, 2.7mb)
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Factsheet 5: Managing Risk During the Match
This factsheet offers information regarding the process of managing risk to ensure your organisation is prepared when things go wrong. In meeting your program goals and providing a safe and secure environment for mentees and mentors it is imperative that risk is managed and understood as part of your program planning. Risk is concerned with the chance of something happening which will impact your program and organisations outcomes. Risk management is the process of limiting risk, managing potential risks and having policy and procedure in place so that if things do go wrong, damage is minimised.
Click here to download the factsheet (PDF 3.5mb)
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Factsheet 6: Avoiding Early Match Termination
This factsheet provides coordinators with help to prevent matches terminating prematurely. Research demonstrates that the longer the mentoring relationship, the more positive outcomes for the mentee. However, if matches end in the first three months, a greater potential for harm exists. As program coordinators, it is imperative to plan, deliver and develop programs to provide the best outcomes for success; for matches to remain together for a reasonable amount of time; and in order to meet the vision for your program.
Click here to download the factsheet (PDF, 572kb)
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Factsheet 7: Guide to Child Protection
This factsheet provides coordinators with assistance in developing policies and procedures for a program’s child protection policy. Organisations providing programs for young people have the responsibility for safeguarding their participants. Imbedding safe practices, including risk management policies into an organisation’s culture will help to prevent abuse.
Click here to download the factsheet (PDF, 1.5Mb)
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Factsheet 8: Closing the Match
This factsheet provides programs with procedures, policy and tips on how to close a match. A range of reasons exist which may bring about the close of a mentoring match. As the program coordinator, it is essential to prepare not only the parties involved but also the operations of the program, ensuring all boxes are ticked and your program strives to meet the National Youth Mentoring Benchmarks.
Click here to download the factsheet (PDF, 1.32Mb)
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Factsheet 9: Mentor Screening
This factsheet provides programs with details about screening tools mentoring programs can use to screen mentors. Screening mentors provides not only a duty of care to your mentees, program and stakeholders; it also ensures that our young people are surrounded by clear rules, expectations and standards, sending a message of safety, integrity and value. The type of screening process a program requires will depend upon the particular group being mentored, the risks involved, and the personal characteristics desired in your mentors.
Click here to downlaod the factsheet (PDF, 2.02Mb)
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Factsheet 10: Program Tune-Up
The Australian Youth Mentoring Network’s (AYMN) National Youth Mentoring Benchmarks provide the minimum standards for mentoring programs to follow. These are a guide for programs to establish a solid foundation for delivering a quality program. This fact sheet aims to assist you in the ‘tune up’ of your operations in order to better meet the National Benchmarks and make a difference to the lives of young people.
Click here to downlaod the factsheet (PDF, 3.09 MB)
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