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Mentoring Opportunities for Youth Initiative

Webinar To Discuss Creating Mentoring Programs To Support Native Youth

 

On August 16, 2018, from 1 to 2:15 p.m. ET, OJJDP and MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership will present "Supporting and Inspiring Native Youth." This webinar will focus on creating conditions to support Native youth through mentoring and youth development programming. This webinar is part of the Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series, which is supported by OJJDP's National Mentoring Resource Center and facilitated jointly...

Request for Proposals: Disability Mentoring Initiative

Partners for Youth with Disabilities, an OJJDP Mentoring Opportunities for Youth Initiative grantee, has issued a request for proposals from nonprofit organizations to become subawardees within its Disability Mentoring Initiative. One or two new collaborators will be chosen. The initiative is a collaborative mentoring partnership to improve outcomes for at-risk youth with disabilities through expanded, high-quality, and evidence-based mentoring programming.

Proposals must be emailed...

Mentoring Initiative for System-Involved Youth (MISY)

Date Published
August 2010
Publication Type
Youth-Oriented Material, Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored

Tools for Strengthening Mentor-Mentee Matching Available Online

OJJDP, in collaboration with the National Mentoring Resource Center, has developed tools to help youth mentoring programs address the proper support and closure of mentor-mentee matches. These tools were informed by research and practitioner insights from the 2016 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring, as well as early data from the OJJDP-supported Study to Analyze Relationships project.

Resources:

  • Access mentoring resources from OJJDP.