Quality Mentoring

"Just because a program proclaims it does mentoring does not mean it is effective." (Jean Baldwin Grossman, Contemporary Issues in Mentoring, 1999)

Quality mentoring is mentoring that produces significant, lasting, positive outcomes for mentees. It is responsible, ethical, effective mentoring. Through quality mentoring, the needs of the mentee, volunteer mentor, organization and community are fulfilled.

If not every mentoring program is necessarily a quality one, how can you verify that yours is? There are a number of ways to determine whether your mentoring program is effective:

Why not do a quick assessment of your program's quality now? Find out if your mentoring program contains the "Elements of Effective Practice".

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