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Mentoring

OJJDP FY 12 Multi-State Mentoring Initiative

Closing Date
This solicitation invites eligible applicants to propose the enhancement or expansion of initiatives that will help communities develop or improve mentoring programs for at-risk or high-risk populations that are underserved due to location, shortage of mentors, special physical or mental challenges of the targeted population, or other analogous situations that the community identifies.

OJJDP FY 12 Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration Program

Closing Date
This demonstration program will support collaborations of qualified, established mentoring program to implement advocacy or teaching functions into mentors’ roles by enhancing (1) the matching of youth and mentors based on needs, skills, experiences, and interests; (2) initial and ongoing training for mentors, and (3) ongoing mentor support.

OJJDP FY 12 Local Mentoring Coordinator Program

Closing Date
This program will support salary and related expenses for a coordinator who will develop or enhance a collaborative of existing mentoring services provided by multiple organizations for youth in a localized geographical area who are identified as being at risk or high risk of entering the juvenile justice system.

OJJDP FY 12 Mentoring Best Practices Research

Closing Date
This solicitation seeks to fund research studies that will inform the design and delivery of mentoring programs. OJJDP expects that the results of this effort will encourage a more effective utilization of resources as well as enhance the implementation of evidence-based best practices for juvenile mentoring.

OJJDP FY 13 National Mentoring Programs: Category 2: Group Mentoring

Closing Date
This program supports the implementation and delivery of one-to-one, group, and peer mentoring services to at-risk, high-risk, or underserved youth populations through national mentoring organizations and their chapters or subawardees. This program also supports one or more enhancements of services to both improve the access to and impact of mentoring services.