Mentoring

On November 21, 2017, from 1 to 2:15 p.m. ET, OJJDP, together with MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, will present "National Mentoring Month: How to Engage and Recruit." This webinar will explore how to leverage National Mentoring Month to support mentor recruitment and will provide tips and tools to engage and expand audiences. This webinar is part of the Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series...

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...

On October 19, 2017, from 1 to 2:15 p.m. ET, OJJDP, together with MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, will present "Create an Effective Team to Drive Your Program's Success." This webinar will explore how mentoring organizations can create effective teams. Presenters will discuss competencies that help mentoring practitioners, explore practices to engage employees, and highlight approaches to build collaborative and creative environments. This webinar...

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.