Alumni Evaluation: Assessing Your Program's Long-Term Impact
This file helps you set up an evaluation project that examines what, if any, long-term impact your program has had on your alumni.
Before You Evaluate!: A To-Do List
Program evaluation can help foster accountability, determine whether programs make a difference, and provide staff with the information they need to improve service delivery.
Features of Positive Developmental Settings for Young People
This document describes youth development principles which can be applied to help structure and/or assess program and work settings in mentoring as well as in other programs.
Icebreakers and Energizers
A resource packet of Icebreakers and Energizers compiled by CIN Members for use with interns.
Member's Best Practices
A resource guide containing CIN members' best practices.
Mentor Training Resources and Handbook
This document addresses the process of preparing mentors to work with interns.
Mentoring: A Promising Strategy for Youth Development
Research study revealing both positive and inconclusive implications of mentoring on youth.
Potential-Mentor Intake Form
Good mentors are a key component to a successful internship program. A good mentor has the potential to impact a student’s future, and thus you want to make sure to get a strong sense of prospective mentors to see if you want to entrust your youth with them. You can use the following questions as part of a mentor application, mentor interview, or mentor pre-program training workshop.
Research about Career Development Internships
A brief overview of the research in the field about essential criteria for quality internship programs.
Retention Strategies
This file provides information on how youth development principles can be infused throughout an internship program to help increase retention.
Student Self Assessment Rubric
A self-assessment rubric for interns and program staff to mointor progress on skills.
Supporting Interns' Aspirations: The School-to-College/Career Journey
Useful and relevant information packet that can be used directly with interns to help them with the transition from high school to college.
Tools and Methods for Evaluation
This document desribes the benefits and drawbacks of tools and methods to be used in the evaluation process.
What Do We Mean by Career Internships?
An in-depth look of the characteristics necessary for a quality internship program. There is also brief information about what the research reveals on mentoring relationships.