Mentoring

Youth Service America's Get Ur Good On Grants fund community service projects led by young people. Projects must address a demonstrated community need or issue, and must take place in June, July or August 2012. Applicants can be 5 to 25 years old. They must have an adult mentor who will help throughout the project. Applicants younger than 18 must have their parent or guardian's permission...
Meet Craig, resident-turned-intern at Sea Haven for Youth, a runaway and homeless youth program in North Myrtle Beach, SC.
When 18-year-old Dan Wall started out as a messenger at the Seattle logistics company Expeditors in 1988, he had no intention of attending college. And he never imagined he would become the senior vice president of a Fortune 500 Company. His bosses, CEO Peter Rose and President of Sales and Marketing Tim Barber, saw what he couldn’t see. They knew he had the right attitude to go far. He...
Funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is available to enhance or expand initiatives that 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 situations. Full announcement (PDF, 370KB)
This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention program aims to  reduce juvenile delinquency, gang involvement, academic failure, victimization and school dropout rates by funding a coordinator position at a local continuum of mentoring services for youth. Full announcement (PDF, 356KB)
This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention demonstration program will study efforts to improve mentoring practices at three to five sites in one geographic area. Improvements will cover (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. Full announcement (PDF,...
Each year thousands of young women run away from home. To survive, some girls steal. Some sell their bodies for money or a place to stay. Many use drugs and alcohol to cope with life on the streets. Eventually, many girls end up in the juvenile justice system. NCFY spoke with Lawanda Ravoira, director of the National Girls Institute, about how to keep homeless young women out of trouble, out of...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention program wishes to support research that will enhance our understanding of how mentoring can prevent problems for those who are at risk of involvement or already involved in the juvenile justice system. While mentoring appears to be a promising way of helping these youth, more work is needed to identify the components of a mentoring program...
The host home program for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth run by Family and Youth Services Bureau grantee Avenues for Homeless Youth was spotlighted in a recent PBS video, "Feels Like Home: Helping Homeless LGBT Youth."
The "We Can Change the World" Challenge encourages young people to solve environmental problems and work as teams. Groups of students and teachers or mentors are challenged to come up with solutions and innovations addressing such problems as food waste, battery recycling, and erosion. Learn more and apply on the "We Can Change the World" website. 
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