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It provides guidance on defining and designing a mentoring approach, including assessing youth and family needs and assets, positioning mentors within existing support ecosystems, and developing a theory of change. 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For over 20 years, the various iterations of that document (now in its  \n4th edition) have served as a starting point for community leaders and youth-serving professionals looking for basic guidance about how to develop and implement a volunteer mentoring program for young people. But as the mentoring field has evolved, so too have the program models and contexts in which youth experience mentoring, so it’s vitally important that we provide additional recommendations to those who are going about their mentoring work in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to concepts like critical mentoring, where there are opportunities to offer mentoring in ways that are much more culturally responsive and relevant and that are focused on changing historically harmful mentoring approaches that do not effectively support youth and communities experiencing marginalization and oppression.  \nIn the section that follows, we offer some key recommendations for practice that should support the development of strong, critically focused mentoring programs. We present these recommendations with loose alignment to the original Elements of Effective Practice, but want to note that there is no “right” way to run a mentoring program and that the recommendations offered here are only a starting point that should be augmented with the wisdom of local practitioners and leaders, the voices of young people, and the input of community stakeholders. We have also framed this around a series of questions that practitioners should attempt to answer, rather than dictating what those answers should be — an approach that we hope increases the inclusiveness and applicability of this resource. Elsewhere in this resource, we also provide a handy checklist of key practices so that program leaders can chart their progress in building out their critical mentoring model.  \nWhile called out specifically in a few places, the overarching question for practitioners as they think about the practice recommendations below is: How can I put young people at the forefront of the design, implementation, and sustainability of this work? Chances are there are many more opportunities for putting youth in the lead on these program elements than we have noted below.  \nCritical Mentoring Supplement to the  \nElements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™  \n1. DEFINING AND DESIGNING YOUR MODEL  \nWhether you are designing a brand-new program from scratch or shifting an existing program to take on a critical mentoring approach, the following tips can help you in making important decisions about how the program will function.  \n• What youth needs are you hoping to address and what assets do youth and their families bring? One of the great things about mentoring is that it can be deployed in service of almost any goal or aspect of youth development. But what will your program offer that other services and supports don’t? The best approach here is to talk with youth and families and see what support would be most beneficial from their perspectives. A participatory action approach is often thought of as a way to conduct program evaluation, but it can also be very helpful on the front end of designing a program as it puts program recipients in the driver’s seat and asks them,“What do you want to achieve? What should this program help you accomplish? What would have meaning to you?” Make sure that young people and their caregivers are the strongest voices in helping determine the focus and goals of the program .  \n• How will mentors be positioned in relation to the many other supports in the lives of the young people served? 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