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Recruiting Youth to Your Mentoring Program

  

Tools & Checklists

 Contributed by Marcelo Vilela and Lorraine Claassen Edited by Kate Nagy

Tools
Checklist

Tools

Tool # 1: Recruiting strategy plan

This chart was designed to help you through the beginning of your recruiting. Answering the following questions, you will be able to figure out where and how to start recruiting.

Recruiting Plan

What is your main objective with this recruitment?

How many people do you want to recruit?

Between what ages?

Should the recruits have any specific characteristics (race, education, family income)?

From which area of town do you want to recruit?

Do you want to recruit in a specific income bracket? Between how much?

Where are the places where you can find the recruits you're looking for? (schools, malls, streets)?

How many people will be necessary to do the recruiting?

What recruiting strategies will we use?

Where and when is the first recruiting session (in case you'll have one) supposed to be held?

After you contact your recruits, what is going to be our next step?

Do we have a back-up plan?

What do we do if the demand for mentors exceeds the supply?

Which kind of activities are we going to supply to attract youth?

How long is the recruiting process supposed to take?

In how many steps are we going to carry recruiting?

How are we going to do our advertising?

What are going to be criteria for recruiting?

Who should we contact for referrals?

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Checklist

Here you'll find a checklist summarizing the major points contained in the text.


___You understand what recruiting youth is

___You know who you should recruit

___You know where to go to recruit youth

___You know how to recruit youth

___You established qualifying criteria for participation

___You created strategies to encourage referrals

___You created ways to make youths want to participate

___You advertised your program


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