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MENTOR Releases New Standards for Mentoring

October 14, 2009: MENTOR's keystone publication on mentoring standards has been updated and released to include the latest research and practice wisdom available to help mentoring relationships thrive and endure.

The Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring, Third Edition, was sponsored through a generous grant from the MetLife Foundation and, as in past editions, brought together the nation's foremost authorities on mentoring under the leadership of Dr. Jean Rhodes of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Dr. Janis Kupersmidt of innovation Research & Training.

This new publication includes six evidence-based standards addressing mentor and mentee recruitment; screening; training; matching; monitoring and support; and closure. Each standard offers benchmarks for day-to-day operations, and they are applicable in stand-alone mentoring programs, as well as programs where mentoring is one element. Each standard also offers enhancements that program staff can incorporate, based on the experience of outstanding mentoring practitioners.

In addition, this resource includes a section on practical advice in building a new mentoring program or strengthening an existing one. It focuses on program design and planning; program management; and program evaluation.

"We are pleased to release this publication so that program staff will have the most up-to-date guidelines on how to make mentoring the best and most effective it can be," said MENTOR's Chief Administrative Officer Tonya Wiley. "At the end of the day, we all want to know what practices truly work in mentoring the children who need a caring adult in their lives."

The process to update the Elements for this third edition involved a design team chaired by Dr. Rhodes, as well as input and counsel from members of MENTOR's Research and Policy Council, an Executive Review Board from Mentoring Partnerships across the country and members of the Federal Mentoring Council and its National Mentoring Working Group.

To download a copy of the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring, Third Edition, go to www.mentoring.org/elements.