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Complete the AYMN Online Self Assessment Tool (OSAT)OSAT is designed to assist youth mentoringprograms to identify how well they aremeeting the Australian Youth MentoringBenchmarks and help understand where theprogram’s strengths and weaknesses lie.By completing this tool you will be able to see:1 How healthy your program is and what makesa quality mentoring program2 Areas in your program that are tracking well orneed improvement3 How your program rates against the averageof all other programs that have completed thetool4 Useful links and resources for continuousimprovementThis is an anonymous process and only theprogram staff completing the tool will be able tosee their individual results.How to use OSATSTEP 1Login at youthmentoring.org.au using your AYMNuser name and password• If your program is not yet registered simplyadd your program to the National YouthMentoring Database on the AYMN websiteSTEP 2Complete the Assessment• Answer the questions in each sectionusing a simple 0-5 rating; 0 being notapplicable, 1 being rarely and 5 beingalways.• The complete assessment takes at most60 minutes but...if you need to stop andsave your work, click Save and ContinueLater and when you next login the systemwill pick up where you left off.• When you have answered all thequestions, click Submit Assessment toautomatically generate your reports.STEP 3View Your ReportsThere are four different types of reports generated:1 Quick View Status Report – provides yourprogram’s average score for each benchmarkelement.2 Report Against all Indicators –provides youwith your individual scores for eachbenchmark indicators.3 Your rating against average rating of allprograms registered – shows your ratingagainst the average of all programs that haveregistered and completed their assessment(anonymity preserved).4 Your Program’s Strengths and Weaknesses -a priority list that shows your program’sstrengths and weaknesses, by gathering allthe indicators under whichever rating you’vegiven them from 0 – 5.You can return and do the assessment as manytimes as you wish.32 Australian Youth Mentoring Benchmarks