Elements of Effective Practice Toolkit

Welcome to the Elements of Effective Practice Toolkit!

This section is the online version of the Toolkit, How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program Using the Elements of Effective Practice, the latest and perhaps most important work in years to advance quality mentoring. This comprehensive tool kit, which is available in both English and Spanish languages, includes tools, templates and advice for implementing and adhering to the second edition of the Elements of Effective Practice--rigorous guidelines that, when followed, will help to ensure quality mentoring.

Whether you are new to mentoring or an old hand, this tool kit will save you time and effort, because it contains materials and information you need to start or maintain a quality mentoring program. The tool kit is written to follow the format of the Elements--but it allows you to take portions of it in a different order, depending on whether you are starting or strengthening your mentoring program.

We hope you will use the tool kit with great success. For further assistance, we encourage you to reach out to your State Mentoring Partnership to find the latest resources for the mentoring field.

You can also order the Toolkit. To do so, please go to the Order Toolkit page.

Downloadable Tools

The tool kit contains OVER 160 ready-to-use tools that you can download and adapt to your program's needs. While the tools will be helpful on their own, they are much more effective when combined with the information available in the free toolkit. Please take a moment download the toolkit from the list on the right.

Tools available

Tools for Designing and Planning: English | Spanish
Tools to Manage a Program for Success: English | Spanish
Tools to to Structure Effective Program Operations: English | Spanish
Tools to Establish Evaluation Criteria and Methods: English | Spanish

Mentoring Immigrant and Refugee Youth

Welcome to the "Mentoring Immigrant and Refugee Youth" Section of the Elements of Effective Practice Toolkit

"Mentoring Immigrant and Refugee Youth" is an important new section of the toolkit, How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program Using the Elements of Effective Practice. This vital addition offers programs essential resources to better understand and serve the unique needs, challenges, and assets of the quickly growing immigrant and refugee youth population in the United States. For more detailed information and to download the tools click here.

MENTOR is pleased to announce the publication of the Mentoring Immigrant Youth: A Toolkit for Program Coordinators. Developed with the generous support of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, this toolkit is a comprehensive resource that is designed to offer program staff important background information, promising program practices and strategies to build and sustain high-quality mentoring relationships for immigrant youth. Included in this resource are five chapters focused on the skills needed to design, plan, manage, operate and evaluate programming specifically for immigrant youth in your area. Each chapter has a series of "ready-to-use" tools, templates and training exercises. To download the PDF of the toolkit, click here.

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Elements of Effective Practice Toolkit

Downloadable Tools

Tools available

Mentoring Immigrant and Refugee Youth