Match Support
When orienting new mentors to your school you will give them this information so they know where to enter, park, and meet.
What is a Orientation Packet
This is who you should contact if you have any hesitation or concerns about matching a new mentor at your school with a student.
What is my Match Support Specialist?
The ABC's of student selection.
What are Attendance, Behavior, and Commitment?
The agreement the student and mentor will sign together to make the match official.
What is the Mentee/Mentor Agreement?
A fast food chain that promotes a TeamMates fundraiser in September.
What is Runza Day?
Contact mentors and students at this time of year to verify if they want to continue meeting the next school year.
What is end of the school year?
This is who a mentor must check in with when they enter the school building.
What is a SEM? (Secured Entrance Monitors)
What is the Mentee Training Handout?
A form that ensures the student wants to be in TeamMates and asks about their interests.
What is the Student Interest Form?
What is the Recognition Celebration?
This is best practice for matches to have if the match is closing. (hint: in person or over zoom)
What is a last meeting?
This is where you can find mentors contact information, visit numbers, and match information.
What is my school's google workbook?
These may be other people in the school to ask about a student nomination.
What are teachers, counselors, other school staff?
This tab is where you find all forms linked on your school's google workbook.
What is TeamMates KickOff?
You send this to all mentors at your school at the beginning of each month.
What is monthly TeamMates communication and updates?
This is the scale on the student interest form that determines their desire to be in TeamMates.
What is 1-5 scale? - 5 being high, 1 being low.
These two forms are sent electronically to parent/guardian with custody to fill out over the summer?
What is the Parent/Guardian Permission form & TeamMates Parent Guide?
These are held at schools across Lincoln that engage matches with a presentation or activity to add to their TeamMates toolbox.
What are Connection Academies?
The algorithm TeamMates uses to find the best matches for students and mentors.
What is the matching tool?
A guide filled with resources, activity ideas, discussion questions, program policies, and tips on being a developmental mentor?
What is the Lincoln TeamMates Mentor Handbook?
After you have considered the student to be a good fit for TeamMates and completed the SIF (Student Interest Form) this is the next step.
What is obtain verbal permission from student parent/guradian?
This form is used to help plan a positive, final closure meeting to celebrate the relationship.
What is the Managing a Healthy Closure handout?
Each month TeamMates staff sends these out for matches to create together then are donated to a community organization.