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MENTORING
Description
OJJDP'S NATIONAL MENTORING RESOURCE CENTER LAUNCHES GRANTEE GEOMAP
This dynamic feature shows OJJDP's investment in mentoring by highlighting
grantees and sub-grantees across the nation. Access the OJJDP Mentoring Grantee
Geomap(link is external)
Blog post: Read(link is external) about the National Mentoring Resource Center's
geomap
* Overview
* Programs and Funding
* TTA
* From the Field
* Contacts
* Resources
OVERVIEW
Youth mentoring—a consistent, prosocial relationship between an adult or older
peer and one or more youth—can help support the positive development of youth.
Mentoring has been shown to improve self-esteem, academic achievement, and peer
relationships and reduce drug use, aggression, depressive symptoms, and
delinquent acts. Many young people have access to mentors (both naturally
occurring and program supported); however, many more do not. In addition, there
continues to be documented variation in both the quality of mentoring and its
impact on youth outcomes.
OJJDP has long supported mentoring programs, awarding more than $1.04 billion in
grants to mentoring organizations from fiscal year (FY) 2008 to FY 2019. OJJDP
served approximately one million youth from 2017 to the first half of 2021, and
almost 150,000 new mentors have been recruited in the last 18 months.
OJJDP's mentoring work aims to both increase opportunities for youth to have
mentors and improve the quality and impact of the mentoring they receive.
Through its research, programmatic grants, training and technical assistance,
and publications, OJJDP provides national leadership to support the delivery of
high quality mentoring to a diverse and growing population of youth. The OJJDP
National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC)(link is external) has been developed
as a key research and practice resource for the mentoring field.
Together with its partners, OJJDP is working on boost mentor recruitment,
enhance mentor-mentee matches, and increase the number of youth who have
mentors.
PROGRAMS AND FUNDING
OJJDP'S PROGRAMMATIC INITIATIVES IN MENTORING
Through federal funding, OJJDP supports a variety of mentoring approaches.
OJJDP's mentoring work focuses on expanding the use of research-informed
enhancements to mentoring programs as well as providing mentoring services to
underserved and at-risk populations of youth.
OJJDP's recent programmatic mentoring initiative:
* Mentoring Opportunities for Youth Initiative
OJJDP also supports the National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC)(link is
external).
FY 2021 mentoring funding awards support:
* National Mentoring Programs – $43,000,000
* Multistate Mentoring Programs Initiative – $27,603,792
* Mentoring for Youth Affected by the Opioid Crisis and Drug Addiction –
$16,000,000
* National Mentoring Resource Center Continuation – $2,845,000
FY 2019 award:
CSEC Mentoring – 9 awards totaling $4 million (combination of Mentoring and MEC
funds)
TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
OJJDP-SPONSORED REFERENCE GUIDE FOR MENTOR SCREENING
"What You Need to Know about Background Screening: A Reference Guide for
Youth-Serving Organizations and their Communities" is for leaders within a
youth-serving organization (YSO), community members who volunteer within YSOs,
and parents of children who participate in YSOs describes six layers of security
screening an agency should consider when developing a comprehensive
background-screening process.
National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC)(link is external)
The goal of the OJJDP-funded National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC), created
in partnership with the National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR), is to improve
the quality and effectiveness of youth mentoring across the country through
increased use of evidence-based practices and sharing practitioner innovations.
In FY 2020, NMRC recorded its highest number of requests for assistance and
delivered a record 13,742 hours of technical support in response to requests.
The NMRC is comprised of three components:
* Comprehensive Website – This website features quality resources for the youth
mentoring field, including a wealth of evidence-based reviews, resources, and
links to additional reading that can support practitioners, researchers and
policymakers in evaluating and improving practice, understanding best
practices in mentoring and supporting decisions related to the development,
funding, and evaluation of youth mentoring initiatives.
* Research Board(link is external) – This board's primary role is to assess and
report on the evidence that bears on the effectiveness of different mentoring
programs, practices, and resources that are intended to promote positive
youth outcomes, particularly those relating to prevention of delinquent
behavior, victimization and juvenile justice systems involvement.
* Training and Technical Assistance(link is external) – This no-cost assistance
that is aligned to evidence-based practices can be accessed through the
website; it is available to OJJDP mentoring grantees and communities or
organizations without an OJJDP grant. Requests for training and technical
assistance can be made directly through NMRC's website(link is external).
FROM THE FIELD
Frankie Lucio, of Houston, TX, was in high school when he signed up an OJJDP
youth mentoring program. Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star matched Frankie with
Christina Garza, a public affairs specialist in the FBI's Houston field office,
through its Beyond School Walls initiative.
Under the initiative, Frankie and other students visited the FBI field office
once a month to gain a better understanding of the FBI's work and meet with
their mentors. The visits began with an hour-long case study or another
FBI-related educational activity followed by lunch, which provided an
opportunity for Frankie and Christina to talk informally. The two also kept in
touch between their visits. "She got me to think about what I wanted to do [in
the future]," Frankie said of his "Big Sister," Christina. "She put me on that
path for the first time in my life." Read the full story from the
January/February 2021, OJJDP News @ a Glance.
CONTACTS
OJJDP CONTACT
Kristen Kracke
Program Manager
Programmatic Contact
202–616–3649
kristen.kracke@usdoj.gov
TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CONTACT
National Mentoring Resource Center
Website: https://nationalmentoringresourcecenter.org(link is external)
RESOURCES
OJJDP PUBLICATIONS
OJJDP research and evaluation initiatives generated the following related
publications, links and products.
Mentoring for Enhancing School Attendance, Academic Performance, and Educational
Attainment
OJJDP-Sponsored, December 2021.
HTML(link is external) | PDF(link is external)
Mentoring for Enhancing Career Interests and Exploration
OJJDP-Sponsored, December 2021.
HTML(link is external) | PDF(link is external)
In Focus Fact Sheet: Mentoring Youth
OJJDP-Produced, updated February 2022.
PDF
Blog: Strengthening Connections: Mentoring Youth During a Pandemic
April 2020.
HTML
Mentoring for Preventing and Reducing Delinquent Behavior Among Youth
OJJDP-Sponsored, February 2020.
HTML(link is external) | PDF(link is external)
Mentoring for Preventing and Reducing Substance Use and Associated Risks Among
Youth
OJJDP-Sponsored, January 2020.
HTML(link is external) | PDF(link is external)
Associations between Parental Characteristics, Attitudes, and Engagement on
Mentoring Relationship Outcomes
OJJDP-Sponsored, November 2017.
PDF (Final Report) | PDF (Research in Brief)
Evaluation of the Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration Program
OJJDP-Sponsored, April 2018.
PDF (Technical Report) | PDF (Appendices)
Extending a Randomized Trial of the My Life Mentoring Model for Youth in Foster
Care To Evaluate Long-Term Effects on Offending in Young Adulthood
OJJDP-Sponsored, January 2018.
PDF
Group Mentoring for Resilience: Increasing Positive Development and Reducing
Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System
OJJDP-Sponsored, July 2018.
PDF | Mentoring Best Practices Research
Investigation of Long-Term Effects of the Big Brothers Big Sisters
Community-Based Mentoring Program: Final Technical Report for OJJDP
OJJDP-Sponsored, January 2018.
PDF
Mentoring Best Practices Research: Effectiveness of Juvenile Mentoring Programs
on Recidivism
OJJDP-Sponsored, November 2017.
PDF (Research in Brief) | PDF (Full Report) | Mentoring Best Practices Research
Mentoring for Youth With Disabilities
OJJDP-Sponsored, October 2018.
HTML(link is external)
Prediction and Prevention of Premature Closures of Mentoring Relationships: The
Study To Analyze Relationships (STAR Project)
OJJDP-Sponsored, January 2018.
PDF (Full Report) | PDF (Research in Brief)
Synthesis of OJJDP-sponsored Mentoring Research
OJJDP-Sponsored, September 2018.
PDF
LINKS
OJJDP's Model Programs Guide (MPG)
OJJDP's MPG contains information about evidence-based juvenile justice and youth
prevention, intervention, and reentry programs. It is a resource for
practitioners and communities about what works, what is promising, and what does
not work in juvenile justice, delinquency prevention, and child protection and
safety.
CrimeSolutions.ojp.gov: Mentoring Practice Profile
This resource provides findings from rigorous evaluation research syntheses in
mentoring. Mentoring, as a general practice, has demonstrated positive impacts
across a variety of delinquency, education, mental health, and substance abuse
outcomes.
Mentoring Research Partners Program
This program supported researchers who sought 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.
High-Risk Youth Mentoring Research
The High-Risk Youth Mentoring Research program supported research and
evaluations to further examine how certain characteristics, components, and
practices of mentoring programs could best support youth who are at particularly
high risk for delinquency.
RELATED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
OJJDP-Funded Mentoring Publications: Access OJJDP-funded mentoring publications.
Handbook of Youth Mentoring(link is external): This updated Second Edition of
the Handbook of Youth Mentoring presents a comprehensive synthesis of current
theory, research, and practice in the field of youth mentoring.
Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring(link is external): MENTOR's
cornerstone publication, the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™,
details research-informed and practitioner-approved Standards for creating and
sustaining quality youth mentoring programs and consequently, impactful
mentoring relationships. The Fourth Edition, released in September 2015,
reflects the most up-to-date research, practice, and thinking in the mentoring
field.
The Mentoring Effect: Commissioned by MENTOR, this report shares the findings
from the first nationally representative survey of young people's perspectives
on mentoring.
Center for Evidence-based Mentoring(link is external): At the University of
Massachusetts Boston, the Center seeks to advance the production, dissemination,
and uptake of evidence-based practice in ways that improve the effectiveness of
practice and, ultimately, create stronger, more enduring mentor-mentee
relationships.
OTHER FEDERAL RESOURCES
Youth.gov: Mentoring: Youth.gov (formerly FindYouthInfo.gov) was created by the
Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP), which is composed of
representatives from 19 federal agencies that support programs and services
focusing on youth. The IWGYP promotes the goal of positive, healthy outcomes for
youth. There is also a related OJJDP-funded topical page about serving Children
of Incarcerated Parents.
Department of Labor: Office of Disability Employment Policy: Career-focused
mentoring provides young people the opportunity to get a glimpse of the world of
work that may not otherwise be available to them. It also allows them to gain
and practice skills that are useful in professional and other settings, and to
prepare for life as an adult.
EVENTS AND TRAININGS
* National Mentoring Summit
* Supporting Newly Arrived Young People from Immigrant & Refugee Populations
through Mentoring and Family Support
View related events and trainings | View related on-demand events and training
AWARDS
* National CARES Mentoring Movement Multistate Program
* Leadership Foundations Mentoring Youth for Leadership Initiative
* Knoxville Area Mentoring Initiative
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