Redesign of ASPIRE Toolkit

ASPIRE is a mentoring program that matches trained and supportive adult volunteer mentors with middle and high school students to develop a plan to help them meet their career and education goals beyond high school.

The ASPIRE Toolkit compiles resources for volunteers in a online website. In the original version, all of the files and resources were all listed together. It was very difficult to navigate. Many of the pages were not fully developed.

Here is the format of the earlier ASPIRE Volunteer Toolkit. 

Here is the current ASPIRE Toolkit (combining the volunteer and coordinator toolkits).

I organized the new toolkit to fit the key tasks I felt that volunteers would need to do with their students:

1. Explore Career Options
2. Explore College/ Education Options
3. Apply for these options
4. Pay for these options through financial aid

I then incorporated the training resources of the ASPIRE Coordinators and Volunteers into the site under “Volunteer & Coordinator Tools”. This reduced the number of places the coordinators and volunteers had to navigate.

I vetted these resources with a Volunteer Committee made up of 10 ASPIRE Volunteers who had been with the program for several years.