Discussion: What do you wish you could do more of in your program?

In some ways, running a youth mentoring program is about tradeoffs. We may want to serve more kids, try new approaches, build more creative partnerships, but often these desires are constrained by available resources, staff skills and time, or the competition for volunteers and stakeholder interest. Sometimes, we even find ourselves constrained by “best practices” or our own program models, which demand focus and consistency to achieve results.

But what would your program do more of if it could? What is the one idea or new direction you’ve wanted to explore but haven’t? We’re interested in hearing your thoughts about the things that you wish your program could do more of, but are currently not able to. Exploring these types of questions helps the whole field understand our work better, so let us know how you hope your program can grow… and what may be holding it back. What tradeoffs are you making in your work?

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