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Enhanced School-Based Mentoring
Affinity Group Leadership Discussions
April 2012
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Our premise:
• School-based Mentoring is an important
agency program that can help agencies become
educational leaders and serve youth
intentionally in their community.
• By embracing many practices common to CBM
programs, Enhanced School-based Mentoring
(ESBM) is an effective way to provide
mentoring in schools.
• ESBM can be an effective tool to demonstrate
our commitment to be a learning organization
and to employ evidence-based programs.
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Does school-based mentoring (SBM) continue
to provide opportunity for positive impact?
Choose the best answer:
a. SB impact < CB impact
b. SB impact = CB impact
c. SB impact > CB impact
Answer: b
Recent meta-analysis of mentoring programs and both PPV studies
found that school-based mentoring has the same level of impact as
community-based mentoring.
In fact, SBM programs may be better
able to produce academic outcomes
Source: DuBois, et al. “How Effective Are Mentoring Programs for Youth?“ 2010, Herrera, et al. , 2007
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The national ESBM pilot demonstrates that
we can improve our SBM impact
2007 National SBM
Impact Study
2008-2010 National
ESBM Pilot
• PPV study of SBM finds positive
outcomes in first year that are
not sustained beyond that year
• Demonstrated potential to
improve SBM: percent of
matches carrying over from one
school year to the next was 56%
in pilot vs. 40% in PPV study
• Longer matches and closer
relationships are important for
outcomes
• Effective SB programs look more
like CB programs
We have an opportunity to expand our
impact in SBM by implementing tested,
evidence-based practices
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The perspective from ESBM Pilots
• How has ESBM affected your agency’s
relationship with your school partners?
• What have you seen in terms of outcomes
from children served by ESBM at your agency?
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In the ESBM pilot, several practices surfaced as
important to long, strong matches
Commitment
12 month match
commitment
Program structured
to encourage
matches to last over
two school years
Pre-match training
for volunteers
Collaboration
Deepened school
partnerships
Partnerships that
can supply 12
month volunteers
Littles involved in
activity selection
Connection
In-depth child
interview
Parent
engagement
Summer and holiday
match communication
1 to 1 match
interactions
High quality contacts
outside of program time
Increased match
support contacts
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Some of these practices may already be
standard in your SBM; others require change
Partnership
• Build strong
school partners,
with clear roles and
MOU
• Partner with
volunteer-rich
organizations,
setting
expectation of
minimum 12 month
involvement
Recruitment &
customer relations
• Recruit for
minimum 12
month
commitment with
summer contact
• Set expectation
for one-to-one
match
interactions
Enrollment &
matching
• Reinforce and
plan for minimum
12 month
involvement
• Carefully screen,
assess, and train
Bigs for child
safety
• Engage parents
• Match based on
expanded input
and common
interests
Match support
• Provide frequent,
regular contacts with
all participants
• Make contacts
outside of program
time and provide
opportunity to listen
to, support, and coach
• Encourage one-toone interaction
• Encourage summer
and holiday contact
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These changes to your program practices
raise strategic questions for your agency
Leadership
How can you lead
change for your staff?
Sustainable
resources
How can you leverage
this as an exciting
opportunity to enhance
your impact through
evidence-based
practices and attract
more resources for
SBM?
Program capacity
What balance of SB and
CB matches will
optimize your
community impact and
your efficiency?
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Questions? Comments?
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Our premise:
• School-based Mentoring is an important agency program
that can help agencies become educational leaders and
serve youth intentionally in their community.
• By embracing many practices common to CBM programs,
Enhanced School-based Mentoring (ESBM) is an effective
way to provide mentoring in schools.
• ESBM can be an effective tool to demonstrate our
commitment to be a learning organization and to employ
evidence-based programs.
Start Something
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Next Steps
 Following this webinar, you will receive a similar
powerpoint slideshow that you can use to facilitate a
discussion among your staff or leadership team
 If your agency would like to learn more about the
nuts and bolts of ESBM, please have your Program
Director plan to attend a webinar in May (dates and
times TBA).
 Support for agencies to implement ESBM will be
provided by Marc Wheeler with additional tools and
materials through the Agency Resource Center.