All content relevant for youth mentoring practitioners, youth-serving program staff, and people who are interested in mentoring-related policy.
Most youth leaders today find themselves time-challenged to scan or take advantage of the myriad resources made available to them, covering an even greater sea of topics. Often, the biggest challenge is knowing which resources warrant your time and attention. Today, I’d like to say, “We’ve got one for you!” Trust me on this one. […]
Mentoring programs always place a premium on the training of mentors. After all, these are the individuals who deliver the essence of the program: a caring, meaningful relationship. But that relationship involves two people and it seems that properly preparing young people for the mentoring experience should have just as much impact on how their […]
by Marc Wheeler & Salem Valentino, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America In these days of information overload it is especially important to find new ways to translate research and evaluation evidence for general audiences. As many people in the mentoring community know, it’s often difficult to translate findings for the public while remaining true […]
Since last Monday, my city–and presumably the nation–has witnessed a steady stream of disturbing images and stories from the Boston Marathon bombings and the chaotic, violent aftermath. How should parents, mentors, and other caring adults talk about the human tragedy behind these images with children and teens? Although there are no easy answers, the bombings […]
The Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico is pleased to announce the sixth annual mentoring conference: Impact and Effectiveness of Developmental Relationships . Tuesday, October 29 – Friday, November 1, 2013 Student Union Building (SUB), UNM Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM We seek to facilitate discourse on the impact and effectiveness of developmental relationships […]
The research base around youth mentoring has grown considerably over the last decade and it seems that every few months a new report or resource comes along that improves our understanding of how to deliver mentoring services and what they can achieve. Already this year we have the valuable insights from the Role of Risk […]
By Adar Ben-Eliyahu One of the burning questions for practitioners, researchers, and policy makers is – how does mentoring work? We have all seen that mentoring is correlated with good outcomes, but correlation does not explain what leads to those outcomes, why or how. A correlation can tell us if the relations are positive, […]
Reprinted from the Chronicle of Higher Education By Aisha Labi, November 26, 2012 Apprenticeships Make a Comeback in the United States Michael Aguilera, a student at Greenville Technical College, in South Carolina, and a participant in the BMW Scholars Program, learns from an employee at the company’s plant in Spartanburg. “It would be great to start […]
Register Today for Mentoring Conferences in Colorado, California, Oregon from Mentoring.org. March 26, 2013: Registration is open for three conferences focused on advancing quality youth mentoring: The Youth Mentoring Collaborative (YMC) and Serve Colorado’s Colorado Mentoring Symposium – Youth Mentoring: The Next Step – April 12 in Denver; the Friends for Youth’s 14th Annual Mentoring Conference – […]
by W. Wilson Goode, Sr. In September 2011 Amachi was awarded a $3M three-year grant from the Office of Justice and Juvenile Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to provide mentoring services to at-risk youth, including children from military families. Military youth eligible to participate in the Amachi Expansion for Military and Civilian Families (AEMCF) are those between the […]
MentorPROFebruary 21, 2023 - MentorPRO is a leading digital tool platform to support educators to build developmental relationships with their students in easy and fun ways.
AlongMarch 30, 2022 - In support of our continued conversation on how to support today’s youth, this issue of the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring is proudly sponsored by Along, a free digital tool designed to support educators to build developmental relationships with their students in easy and fun ways.
MENTOR: The National Mentoring PartnershipNovember 12, 2014 - MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) is the unifying champion for expanding quality youth mentoring relationships in the United States. For nearly 25 years, MENTOR has served the mentoring field by providing a public voice, developing and delivering resources to mentoring programs nationwide and promoting quality for mentoring through standards, cutting-edge research and state of the art tools.
Academic Web PagesAugust 6, 2012 - Academic Web Pages is the leading provider of customized websites for researchers, centers, nonprofits, and universities. AWP designed and has contributed generously to the creation of the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring.
