Mentoring
4-H National Mentoring Program
Mentoring Youth for Leadership II (MYL II)
Bridging the Gap Between At-Rick Youth and Their Communities through Big Brothers Big Sisters Mentoring
Further Developing and Enhancing the National Mentoring Resource Center
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Investigation of Research-Informed Enhancements to Program Practices
Annie Malone Children & Family Service Center: St. Louis Girls At Risk Initiative
The Clubhouse Network: Increasing Mentor Participation and Commitment to Success
Webinar To Discuss Logic Models for Mentoring Programs
On August 17, 2017, from 1 to 2:15 p.m. ET, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership will present A Fresh Look at Logic Models: Enhance and Amplify Their Value. This webinar will explore logic models for mentoring organizations. Presenters will discuss how to assess logic models, revise logic models for increased outcomes, and use logic models to enhance an organization. This webinar is part of the ...
Webinar To Discuss Identification of Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Mentoring Programs
On August 22, 2017, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. ET, OJJDP, in collaboration with the National Mentoring Resource Center and MANY, will present Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Assessment and Identification in Mentoring Programs. Participants will explore indicators of commercial sexual exploitation among children and youth in mentoring relationships and will walk through real-life scenarios to assess risk. This webinar will also provide tools and resources...
Webinar To Discuss Supporting Mentors and Mentees
On July 20, 2017, from 1 to 2:15 p.m. ET, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership will present Supporting Mentors and Mentees in the Face of Challenges." This webinar will explore strategies and tips to help mentors interact with mentees regarding delicate or difficult issues, such as drugs or sex, problems in families, illnesses, mental health, death and bereavement, and violence. This webinar is part of...
Community-Based Violence Prevention Study of the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative: An Intervention To Prevent Urban Gun Violence
Webinar To Discuss Mentoring Collaborations
On June 22, 2017, from 1 to 2:15 p.m. ET, OJJDP, together with MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR), will present "Partnerships Drive Success: Using Cross-Sector Collaborations to Build Capacity in Youth Agencies." This webinar will explore how mentoring programs can expand by partnering with local organizations, other mentoring and/or youth agencies, and businesses. This webinar is part of the Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series...
OJJDP FY 17 Mentoring for Child Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Domestic Sex Trafficking Program and Training and Technical Assistance
The purpose of this program is to enhance the capacity of applicant organizations to respond to the needs of child victims of commercial sexual exploitation (CSE)/domestic sex trafficking (DST). Under this initiative, OJJDP expects successful applicants to develop or enhance mentoring service models and mentor training based on best practices to focus on the needs of youth who are at risk or are victims of...
Webinar To Discuss Mentoring for Sexually Exploited Youth
On May 18, 2017, from 1 to 2:15 p.m. ET, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership will present "The Restorative Power of Mentoring for Sexually Exploited Youth." This webinar will explore program considerations and strategies for mentoring youth victims/survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. This webinar is part of the Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series, which is supported by OJJDP's National Mentoring Resource Center.
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Webinar To Discuss Mentoring Youth in the Workplace
On May 17, 2017, from 2 to 3 p.m. ET, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership will partner with Bank of America to present "Great Management Is Great Mentoring: Mentoring Youth in the Workplace." This webinar is designed for managers of summer youth employment programs and internship initiatives. Presenters will share effective mentoring and management practices to help youth and businesses achieve positive outcomes.
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Webinar To Discuss Reentry Mentoring
On April 20, 2017, from 1 to 2:15 p.m. ET, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership will present "ReEntry Mentoring: Conversations from the Field on Working with System-Involved Youth." This webinar will highlight organizations that are engaging system-involved youth through mentoring. Panelists will share how they train mentors, partner with community resources, and support mentees. This webinar is part of the Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series...
Webinar To Discuss Group Mentoring
On March 16, 2017, from 1 to 2:15 p.m. ET, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership will present “Designing and Implementing Group Mentoring Programs.” This webinar will explore strategies that will help mentoring programs build trusting and supportive relationships within a group mentoring setting.
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OJJDP News @ a Glance, January/February 2017
MENTOR To Host National Mentoring Summit
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, in partnership with OJJDP, will host the 2017 National Mentoring Summit on February 1-3, 2017, in Washington, DC. Summit workshops will cover a variety of mentoring issues, such as natural mentoring, how to make programmatic changes based on research and data, mentoring as a facet of police-community relations, and more. This event is intended for mentoring practitioners, researchers...
Future Selves, Motivational Capital, and Mentoring Toward College: Assessing the Impact of an Enhanced Mentoring Program for At-Risk Youth
OJJDP FY 17 Mentoring Opportunities for Youth
OJJDP News @ a Glance, November/December 2016
OJJDP FY 17 Mentoring Research Partners Solicitation
This program will support researchers who seek to partner with OJJDP-funded mentoring organizations to conduct program-specific data collection and evaluation and improve mentoring organizations' ability to collect and analyze program-specific data and measures about the delivery and impact of their mentoring services. The successful researcher applicants would also assist the program in using their data/evaluation findings to make programmatic adjustments.
LGBTQI-GNC and Two-Spirit Blog for StopBullying.gov
By: Robert L. Listenbee, Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) with contributions from Keith Towery, Grants Management Specialist, OJJDP
All children deserve a chance—a chance to be safe, to be educated and to be themselves. Too often, this chance is denied to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer, intersex, gender nonconforming (LGBTQI-GNC) and Two-Spirit1 youth. Many of these youth are...