ELMPEsquire Leadership & Mentoring Program
2026–2027 program hub · Ages 8–17
Everything Esquires, parents and guardians, and Brothers need to prepare, participate, document growth, and deliver an outstanding mentoring program.
ELMP document system
The Information Packet provides the shared program overview. Nine companion documents supplement it with detailed guidance on participants, curriculum, mentoring, leadership, implementation, and achievement.
Each document serves a distinct audience and purpose while reinforcing the same annual structure, leadership outcomes, mentoring model, success goals, and expectations.
Introduces ELMP's mission, annual structure, mentoring model, expectations, youth protections, leadership opportunities, success measures, recognition system, participation details, and official document framework. The seven companion documents add role-specific curriculum and implementation detail.
Translates the annual program into a consistent operating model for staff, mentors, presenters, and partners. It covers the calendar, seminar format, presenter preparation, CEI integration, age-level advancement, mentoring coverage, and evidence of growth.
Provides program-wide direction for planning and quality. It aligns the annual curriculum, calendar, presenter standards, seminar delivery, partner coordination, mentoring coverage, participant evidence, and monthly implementation checks.
Serves as the participant leadership reflection and evidence portfolio. It guides Esquires through the five success goals, monthly activities, mentor conversations, history and identity learning, communication, career readiness, civic engagement, and capstone reflection.
Defines the required 20-minute history component that begins each primary Success Seminar. It connects monthly leadership topics to history, heritage, identity, community, presenter coordination, participant reflection, and curriculum quality checks.
Combines the participant leadership portfolio with staff-facing implementation guidance. It helps staff prepare each chapter, support age-banded activities, review reflection and evidence, document mentor verification, and maintain continuity across the program year.
Defines supervised leadership circles as the universal mentoring experience and separates group facilitation from optional individual matches. It covers session flow, staffing, recruitment, roles, youth protection, documentation, support plans, and quality checks.
A supplemental leadership reflection and evidence portfolio that helps Esquires plan, document, reflect on, and verify progress toward twelve achievement badges. Each badge connects meaningful participation to one or more ELMP Success Goals and requires evidence of real-world learning, service, responsibility, communication, academic growth, career exploration, technology use, brotherhood, civic engagement, or community outreach.
The ELMP Presenter Guide & Planning Workbook helps Success Seminar facilitators understand their assigned topic, presentation expectations, learning objectives, and connection to ELMP's leadership development goals. It serves as a planning tool to help presenters create engaging, practical, age-appropriate sessions for Esquires.
The On-Demand Tutoring Support Network connects Esquires with approved tutors for timely academic support in specific subjects and courses. Students request assistance through one online form, and ELMP Program Staff matches them with qualified tutors based on academic need, course expertise, availability, and preferred tutoring format. All tutors must complete ELMP Mentor Training, required screening, and risk-management approval before serving, and parents or guardians are notified before any tutoring connection begins.
This supplemental student pathway gives each Esquire a focused place to understand badge criteria, choose approved experiences, document evidence, reflect on growth, and receive verification from Program Staff or an approved adult reviewer. It does not replace the ELMP Leadership Reflection & Evidence Portfolio.
Attendance alone is not enough unless a badge criterion specifically measures attendance. Each badge requires participation, assigned responsibility, supporting evidence, reflection, and approved adult verification.
The badge standard remains consistent, but the method may be adjusted based on age, reading level, disability, or other documented needs. Older Esquires should provide more independent analysis, planning, presentation, and evidence.
Each badge reinforces one or more of the five ELMP Success Goals: Academic Performance, Attendance and Participation, Leadership and Conduct, College and Career Readiness, and Personal Growth and Reflection.
Service becomes leadership when an Esquire understands the need, accepts responsibility, completes the work, and reflects on how his actions helped others.
Success Goal Alignment: Attendance and Participation, Leadership and Conduct, Personal Growth and Reflection.
Leadership is strengthened when Esquires understand the people, institutions, struggles, achievements, and traditions that shaped their communities and responsibilities today.
Success Goal Alignment: Academic Performance, College and Career Readiness, Personal Growth and Reflection.
Civic leadership requires accurate information, respectful listening, nonpartisan learning, and responsible participation in community life.
Success Goal Alignment: Leadership and Conduct, College and Career Readiness, Attendance and Participation.
Professional presence is the visible expression of preparation, respect, confidence, self-control, and consideration for others.
Success Goal Alignment: Leadership and Conduct, College and Career Readiness, Personal Growth and Reflection.
Effective leaders organize their ideas, listen carefully, speak with purpose, adjust to their audience, and use feedback to improve.
Success Goal Alignment: Leadership and Conduct, College and Career Readiness, Personal Growth and Reflection.
Exploration helps Esquires connect interests, strengths, education, credentials, experiences, and practical next steps to future opportunities.
Success Goal Alignment: College and Career Readiness, Academic Performance, Personal Growth and Reflection.
Responsible technology use combines skill with judgment. Esquires must protect privacy, verify information, recognize bias, preserve authorship, and use tools to strengthen rather than replace their thinking.
Success Goal Alignment: Academic Performance, College and Career Readiness, Leadership and Conduct.
Brotherhood grows when experienced participants welcome others, model expectations, encourage effort, resolve conflict respectfully, and help the group succeed.
Success Goal Alignment: Leadership and Conduct, Attendance and Participation, Personal Growth and Reflection.
Project leadership turns an idea or assignment into a completed result through purpose, planning, communication, shared responsibility, follow-through, and evaluation.
Success Goal Alignment: Leadership and Conduct, College and Career Readiness, Attendance and Participation.
Academic resilience is demonstrated by naming a challenge, asking for appropriate support, following a realistic plan, learning from setbacks, and documenting progress.
Success Goal Alignment: Academic Performance, Personal Growth and Reflection.
Reliability is a leadership habit. Showing up, arriving prepared, participating fully, and completing required work demonstrates respect for personal goals and the ELMP Brotherhood.
Success Goal Alignment: Attendance and Participation, Leadership and Conduct.
Fundraising and outreach strengthen the program when Esquires represent ELMP professionally, complete assigned work, communicate the mission, and help partners understand the impact of their support.
Success Goal Alignment: Leadership and Conduct, College and Career Readiness, Attendance and Participation.
Program Staff may summarize achievement badge progress, identify leadership strengths, note incomplete evidence, and recommend appropriate recognition. The final review records verified badges, areas for continued growth, and the recognition recommendation.
Mission and vision
ELMP develops underserved young men academically, socially, personally, and professionally through mentoring, leadership development, educational enrichment, and service. The program prepares Esquires to become responsible leaders in their schools, families, workplaces, and communities.
Our vision is a generation of confident, ethical, educated, and service-oriented leaders who positively influence their communities and inspire others through excellence, integrity, and lifelong learning.
How ELMP builds a leader
ELMP connects program standards, learning, mentoring, service, civic participation, family support, documented growth, and recognition across one leadership journey.
Esquires begin with a clear identity, shared expectations, and an age-appropriate path into the program.
The October through May framework builds knowledge, confidence, communication, and practical leadership skill.
Structured relationships help Esquires interpret experiences, plan next steps, and respond to challenges.
Esquires practice leadership through meaningful responsibility in the program and the community.
Experience becomes growth when an Esquire reflects, records evidence, receives feedback, and acts again.
Visible milestones reinforce persistence and show how preparation, character, leadership, and service accumulate.
CEI Community Impact Model
CEI places Esquires inside three connected forms of impact: developing themselves as leaders, strengthening families through service, and strengthening community voice through nonpartisan civic education.
Esquires learn, practice, reflect, and document leadership in structured program experiences.
Esquires learn servant leadership by planning, completing, and reflecting on practical service.
Esquires build informed citizenship, critical thinking, communication, and community leadership.
Program leadership
Program leadership provides the vision, communication, coordination, and quality control that connect Esquires, families, Brothers, presenters, and partners.
Provides overall vision, executive leadership, final approval, risk oversight, partnerships, program finances, and long-range planning.
This position is currently vacant. When appointed, the Assistant Program Director will support program administration, logistics, volunteer coordination, communications, documentation, and continuity of operations.
Coordinates daily operations, family communication, attendance, forms, progress records, tutoring requests, and Esquire support.
The mentoring model
ELMP separates group facilitation from individual mentoring so coverage remains safe, honest, and sustainable.
Screened adults guide reflection and next-step planning during supervised sessions.
A named team handles brief check-ins while staff owns follow-up.
One screened mentor may voluntarily accept one individual Esquire.
Program experiences
Seminars, service, social development, mentoring, career exposure, and recognition create repeated opportunities to learn, apply, reflect, and grow.
Interactive instruction in leadership, life skills, communication, and responsible choices.
Monthly opportunities to serve others and understand the responsibility of giving back.
Wholesome experiences that build connection, teamwork, confidence, and community.
Screened adults and presenters model professional, collegiate, and community pathways.
Tours, workshops, and planning experiences that make future pathways visible.
Short-term academic support coordinated by staff when an Esquire needs help.
A required monthly 20-minute session connecting diverse history to leadership practice.
Professional presence, communication, relationships, and responsible decision-making.
Certificates, badges, jackets, presentations, and the Student Recognition Dinner.
October through May
Every primary seminar combines history and identity, expert instruction, leadership practice, mentoring reflection, and evidence.
EPRS success system
Ten verified goals earn the Esquire jacket.
Shared standards and recognition
The Code of Conduct, Esquire Credos, badge system, and jacket story give Esquires a shared culture and meaningful milestones.
Clear expectations for preparation, respect, representation, participation, and accountability.
Age-appropriate commitments to learning, integrity, service, responsibility, and excellence.
A consistent visual record of verified goals, experiences, service, and leadership growth.
Bronze Rising Leader, Silver Dedicated Scholar, and Gold Elite Esquire recognition build toward higher honors over time. Approved adults verify evidence before credit is awarded.
The fee helps cover the Esquire polo shirt, T-shirt, and program materials. Financial assistance and flexible payment options are available for families who need support.
Esquire work tools
Complete the work, review it with an approved adult, and add it to the portfolio.
Family file center
Choose the appropriate form below to submit an Esquire's current records, completed worksheets, or portfolio evidence.
Mentor Training Academy
Every mentor, circle facilitator, reviewer, tutor, or Mentor on Duty must complete the requirements for the role before serving with Esquires.
Finish all required ELMP mentor-training modules and retain the completion certificate.
Open trainingUpload the training certificate and provide the information required for the NSOPW review and references.
Open submission formTraining alone does not authorize service. Program staff confirms the approved role after all requirements are reviewed.
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