Web Seminar #7
Peer Mentoring: Recruiting, Training, and Ensuring Longevity
Presenter: TINA CHRISTENSEN, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Rochester
Description: Cross-age peer mentoring programs are rapidly growing in popularity in schools and youth development programs across the country. The one-hour session will be presented by Tina Christensen, Program Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Rochester (NY), one of the nation’s leading peer mentoring programs. Tina’s peer mentoring model has produced a number of compelling positive outcomes for youth. She will be sharing her advice on how to effectively structure program services, as well as providing a number of training materials and other handouts programs can use. The presentation will focus on creating effective relationships with schools, recruiting mentors who are right for the job, and how to properly prepare young people for a mentoring role.
Web Seminar Files:
- Recording of the session (video, Windows Media file)
- Slides from the presentation (PDF file)
- Handout: Program Roles and Responsibilities
- Handout: Memorandum of Understanding
- Handout: HS Mentor Agreement
- Handout: Peer Mentor Training Outline
- Handout: Generalized Self Efficacy Scale (evaluation tool, modified by presenter's agency)
- Q & A (answers to participant questions not covered during presentation)
- Transcript of presentation (PDF file)
- Companion resource: Building Effective Peer Mentoring Programs in Schools: An Introductory Guide
Grantee Options:
- Post a question or successful strategy on this topic to the ED Mentoring Forum
- Get technical assistance from the MRC on this topic now
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