Recruiting Youth to Your Mentoring Program

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Recruiting Youth to Your Mentoring Program
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Recruiting is to actively seek out young people
to participate in your program
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Potential participants may have

• Need for role models
• Family problems
• Need for job skills
• Problems in school
• Disabilities

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Where should you recruit?

• Schools
• State agencies
• Churches
• Neighborhood
• Parents
• Teachers
• Coaches
• Family physicians
• Clubs

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How should you recruit youth?

• Establish criteria for participation
• Encourage referrals
• Make youths want to participate
• Advertise your program

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Choose appropriate strategies

• Brainstorm strategies
• Decide on time resources
• Create different strategies, messages and mediums
• Choose specific strategies
• Design messages
• Pick communication
• Pretest ideas and messages

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Implement and evaluate

• Establish a tracking system
• Continuously modify your work based on results
• Celebrate your accomplishments