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Positive youth development research has long demonstrated that youth benefit from close, caring relationships with adults who serve as positive role models. Today, 8.5 million youth continue to lack supportive, sustained relationships with caring adults. Mentoring - which matches youth with responsible, caring mentors, usually adults - has been growing in popularity as both a prevention and intervention strategy over the past decades.
Mentoring provides youth with mentors who can develop an emotional bond with the mentee, have greater experience than the mentee, and can provide support, guidance, and opportunities to help youth succeed in life and meet their goals. Mentoring relationships can be formal or informal with substantial variation, but the essential components include creating caring, empathetic, consistent, and long-lasting relationships, often with some combination of role modeling, teaching, and advising.
Source: youth.gov
Foundation and philanthropic support for mentoring programs from around the Web.
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Foundation: Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga
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The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Arizona a $2 million grant to create a program that aims to help the next generation of scientists grapple with the effects of climate...more
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"As a student, Smith understands how much time people spend circling campus for a parking spot, and the stress and inconvenience it often causes. The support from our peers, Careers Service, and...more
"We need more young people to become advocates for woods and trees and we are excited to be able to open this opportunity again to help fund important projects which will directly address the...more
A 14-year-old girl in India has become the youngest person ever to win a prestigious international journalism fellowship, the Guardian reports. Shashwat Rai, who won the 2018 Young Investigator...more
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