MentorPRO is a comprehensive, user-friendly, online data tracking and analysis system that helps youth mentoring programs manage their Programs, monitor their mentoring Relationships, and evaluate Outcomes. In this presentation, Mentor Michigan will describe the key functions and features of MentorPRO as well as provide information about bringing MentorPRO to your program. This presentation is ideal for new staff members who may be unfamiliar with MentorPRO as well as mentoring organizations that may be interested in bringing MentorPRO to their program

1. Manage P rograms, Monitor R elationships, Evaluate O utcomes

4. Why MentorPRO? Challenge: Mentoring programs lack the ability to fund and develop technological tools to streamline program processes due to limited resources. Solution: Develop and disseminate common system that may be tailored to individual program structure and processes.

5. Why MentorPRO? Challenge: Mentor and mentee application information is difficult to track due to amount of required information and application volume Solution: Streamline paperwork by creating system with individual records for each mentor and mentee, reflecting all stages of process from application to match. Allow programs ability to customize to own processes.

6. Why MentorPRO? Challenge: Keeping on top of each step of the mentor screening process is hard due to the number of steps involved. Solution: House all screening information in mentor’s personalized record, and create indicators that allow program administrators to easily see which steps are incomplete or flagged.

7. Why MentorPRO? Challenge: Keeping track of and reporting on match support and match monitoring can be a difficult and time-consuming process. Solution: House all monitoring and support information in a customized record for each match. Run reports on this data in a few clicks of the mouse.

8. Why MentorPRO? Challenge: Raw data is often difficult to analyze and evaluate, yet funders increasingly require detailed analysis of key elements. Solution: Develop system based on standardized, research-derived measures. Create on-demand, downloadable reports that can be easily manipulated to analyze desired elements.

9. Why MentorPRO? Challenge: Programmatic trends may be hard to identify based on amount of data to manage. Solution: Create reporting system that analyzes data and helps identify trends by time period, demographic information, program, and much more.

19. Questions or Comments? Ben Gulker MM Special Initiatives Associate [email_address] 517-241-2716