Peer Mentoring: Recruiting, Training, and Ensuring Longevity

This one-hour session is presented by Tina Christensen, program director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Rochester (NY), one of the nations leading peer mentoring programs. Tinas peer mentoring model has produced a number of compelling positive outcomes for youth. She shares her advice on how to effectively structure program services, and provides a number of training materials and handouts programs can use. Recorded 8/27/08 by LEARNS, a partnership of Education Northwest (formerly Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory) and Bank Street College of Education. 72 minutes.

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Transcript (PDF)
Slides (PDF)
Handout 1: Using the General Self-Efficacy Scale (PDF)
Handout 2: GSES Handout for High School Mentors (PDF)
Handout 3: GSES Handout for Elementary School Mentees (PDF)
Handout 4: Outline for Training High School “Bigs” (PDF)
Handout 5: Roles and Expectations (PDF)
Handout 6: Sample Ground Rules for High School Mentor Agreement (PDF)
Handout 7: Memorandum of Understanding (PDF)