Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring (4th ed.).

Research has shown that mentoring relationships are most impactful when programs take steps to ensure quality service delivery. MENTOR’s cornerstone publication, Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™, details research-informed and practitioner-approved standards for creating and sustaining quality youth mentoring programs and consequently, impactful mentoring relationships. The Fourth Edition reflects the most up-to-date research, practice, and thinking in the mentoring field and is the most comprehensive attempt to date to build programmatic standards that are grounded in research and evidence-based practices. (Author abstract modified)

Additional resources can be found at http://www.mentoring.org/program_resources/elements_and_toolkits