Requirements

Understanding that all businesses do not offer the flexibility to allow time away from work to allow employees to mentor on a weekly basis, the following guidelines have been established to allow all area business to participate if they so choose.

Distinguished Corporate Honor Roll

• The company must have a written policy supporting administrative leave for mentoring.
• The company must have a CEO/ President/Owner who actively serves as a mentor.

Corporate Honor Roll

• The company must have a written policy supporting administrative leave for mentoring.

Apprentice Honor Roll

• The business must provide an apprenticeship program for high school youth for a minimum of four hours a month.
• This apprenticeship may be carried out in a number of ways:
  1. Business may allow a minimum of one high school youth to job shadow with employees four hours a month, when safety and work load allows;
  2. Business may provide a workshop or hands on project directly related to future employment in that particular field;
  3. Business my join with other area businesses to organize an annual job fair targeting youth and encouraging them to explore careers in Santa Rosa County.

Friends of Mentors

• This category gives businesses that don’t allow any other level of interaction with youth an opportunity to support Santa Rosa County youth.
• Membership at this level is based on an annual financial or in kind contribution.
• Contributions may be used to fund events such as a county wide Volunteer Fair, sponsor a fair booth, be offered as mini-grants to local businesses that want to host a workshop, etc.
  

It is suggested that administrative leave policy for mentoring allow for a minimum of one hour a week, that can be bundled within a single month, at the discretion of the supervisor taking work load into consideration. Samples of current Administrative Leave policies are available upon request.

The Administrative Leave Policy for Florida state employees is available as a guideline. (Click Here)