Launched in January 2014, the National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC) is a comprehensive and reliable resource for mentoring tools, program and training materials, and access to no-cost TTA to provide youth mentoring practitioners with support in more deeply incorporating evidence-based practices to support positive youth outcomes.
Provider Organization
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, Inc.
Award Details
Services
The NMRC website features quality resources for the youth mentoring field including model, population, program, and practice reviews; program and training guides and materials; and a practitioner blog which provides more access to insights and information to strengthen mentoring programs. The NMRC also provides no-cost TA to mentoring programs, to assist them in improving the quality and effectiveness of their programs using evidence-based practices.
Audience
- Child Protection and Advocacy Professionals
- Faith-Based Organizations
- Juvenile Justice Specialists
- Mentoring Professionals
- Nonprofit Organizations
- School Personnel
- Substance Use Professionals
- Tribal Community
- Youth Services Professionals
Eligibility
Applicants must have developed or want to develop a youth mentoring program.
The majority of the youth served in this mentoring program must be under the age of 18. The applicant cannot be a collaboration of mentoring programs.
Mentoring programs receiving TA cannot be a for-profit that will receive monetary compensation for the information, resources, and/or services the NMRC TA provider provides. Trainings delivered directly to a program's service users (mentors, etc.) must have an element of TA involved, e.g., as a train the trainer to the program staff so they can train their own mentors/mentees.
Research to Practice
- Data
- Evaluation
- Evidence-based Practices
- Information
- Performance Measures
Website
The NMRC website features quality resources for the youth mentoring field including model, population, program, and practice reviews; program and training guides and materials; and a practitioner blog which provides more access to insights and information to strengthen mentoring programs. The NMRC also provides no-cost technical assistance to mentoring programs, to assist them in improving the quality and effectiveness of their programs using evidence-based practices.
Mel English
Senior Program Manager
[email protected]
617–798–4212
- Alcohol and Substance Use
- Delinquency Prevention
- Family Engagement
- Foster Youth
- Match Closure
- Matching
- Mental Health
- Mentor/Mentee Recruitment
- Mentor/Mentee Screening
- Mentor/Mentee Training
- Monitoring and Support
- Program Design, Planning and Partnership Development
- Program Evaluation
- Program Management
- Program Operations
- Positive Youth Development
- School Programs/School Safety
- Tribal Youth
- Youth Advocacy
- Youth Involvement