The most essential ingredient in building a mentor/mentee relationship is the establishment of trust between the parties. Several authors have discussed the foundational nature of establishing trust in a participant-investigator relationship in qualitative research. Others have provided theoretical and research underpinnings for the implementation of mentorship models. Such dialogue is lacking in regard to the importance of establishing this type of relationship during a quantitative, experimental approach to investigating a mentorship model in clinical practice (the ARCC model).  This presentation will describe the components of the ARCC model and how the investigator established a trusting relationship with nurse participants, resulting in the development of nurse participant champions, which was essential to the success of the ARCC study. Several concrete examples of how the champions moved study participants to develop an EBP project and then how they influenced an entire division of a home health agency, the Long Term Home Health Care Program of the VSNNY, to implement the project, will be presented.