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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: Fairfield County Community Foundation
The city of Danbury, Conn., has awarded a $50,000 grant to a not-for-profit group that connects high school and elementary school students with adult mentors, the New Haven Register reports. The...more
"Many youth we work with, their families are basically already on the street." That's how a former program manager describes a pre-employment program in British Columbia that won't be running...more
"It feels great to be a representative of this scene in Victoria and hopefully [we can] shed light on how strong the music community is here," says Ollie Sandberg of the band Neighbourly, which is...more
"We are incredibly grateful for Compugen's donation, which will greatly enhance our tutoring and mentorship programs," Johanne Saltarelli, executive director of Montreal's Sun Youth, says in a press...more
Eduardo Martinez is leaving his post as the executive director of New Mexico's MainStreet program after 12 years, the Albuquerque Journal reports. According to the New Mexico MainStreet website,...more
Foundation: Knight Foundation
The US Department of Commerce has announced $19 million in funding for the South Florida ClimateReady Tech Hub, one of 12 " Tech Hubs" across the country designed to advance new technologies in...more
"They not only gain practical skills in household tasks, financial literacy, graphic design, drone operation, interview techniques, and resume preparation, but also develop the confidence to utilize...more
"If nobody else could protect me, then I could protect myself." That's what a 16-year-old in Tampa, Fla., says led him to start carrying a loaded gun, NPR reports. He was a sophomore in high...more
If you've ever wished you could be a scientist, a new study suggests you'd be better off if you had a mentor. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, write in the journal...more
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