First Steps Towards Advancing Mentoring with Your Faith Community
…How the Indiana Mentoring Partnership Can Help
1. Decide What You Are Prepared To Do
Internally, Establish Your Own Vision & Readiness
Convene a conversation among your internal stakeholders regarding how your faith community will advance mentoring. Questions to answer include what your vision and desired outcomes are, how large your effort might initially be, and as well as what resources you are willing to commit, initially?
2. Pick up the Phone – Establish Communication
Get the Right Internal and/ or External Partners on Board
Based on how large you want your initial effort to be, decide if partners need to be brought on board, and who they are. You may just partner with one signature mentoring program, or you may go bigger and involve a mix of partners.
3. Establish the Common Ground
With Your Internal and/ or External Partners, Clarify Your Shared Vision & Readiness
Convene a partners dialogue that will begin to build the partnership around the goal of expanding quality mentoring for your target youth. This dialogue will lay the foundation for a joint planning process that could be fairly quick, or more extensive, depending on the envisioned scope of the partnership.
The Indiana Mentoring Partnership can help your faith community achieve greater student results with mentoring through hands-on technical assistance, resources and momentum from a new statewide mentoring database and promotional campaign. To learn more about how the IMP can help you advance mentoring in your faith community, please contact the IMP
at 1-800-343-7060