Setting Up a Mentoring or Befriending Project

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Setting Up a Mentoring or Befriending Project

• Alan Rosser and Marvin McKenzie
• Salford Foundation

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• Setting Up a Project for NEET Clients

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• Structures
• What makes a good programme?
• Use a framework!
• Almost any will do, but if you
• dont have one, make one.

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• Step 1
• Establish your aims and objectives
• Why are you considering this kind of support?
• Do have resources in place?
• How will you evaluate the
• process?

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• Step 2
• Identify your target/focus group.
• Identify your partners will the programme be
  institution-based or will there be third party
• involvement?

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• Step 3
• Recruit mentors/befrienders.
• Whose responsibility will this be?
• What/where exactly are the groups?
• Identify screening procedures.

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• Step 4
• Train or induct mentors/befrienders.
• Whose responsibility will this be and is there a
  framework in place to support this?

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• Step 5
• Prepare the mentees/befriendees.
• How will the matching process operate?
• Contact with other relevant
• agencies.

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• Step 6
• Establish targets, standards and goals.
• Have a clear idea about what the
  mentors/befrienders role is to
• be.

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• Step 7
• Establish administrative support procedures.
• The role of the link coordinator and others.
• Whole organisation understanding of the
  programme training
• provision.

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• Step 8
• Establish procedures for feedback to
  mentors/befrienders.
• Customer care provision.

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• Step 9
• Monitor progress.
• How will information about clients be handled?

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• Step 10
• Evaluate
• Qualitative and quantitative outcomes
• Systems for collecting monitoring data.
• Appropriate methodology
• funders requirements.