Connect for Kids / Child Advocacy 360 / Youth Policy Action Center - Mentoring

January is National Mentoring Month

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:48:24 -0600

The National Mentoring Month website has materials to promote youth mentoring in your local community.

A New Spirit of Service: How the President Can Improve Civic Engagement and Promote Economic Opportunity

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:43:36 -0600

David Smith, Executive Director of the National Conference on Citizenship, argues that a worsening economic crisis provides an opportunity to embrace national service as a road to economic prosperity

8 Jay's Enterprise, Inc.

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:46:40 -0500

To promote growth in the community through comprehensive marketing and educational programs. To enhance the abilities of youths through mentoring, tutoring, money management are just a few avenues we will incorporate to accomplish these goals.

Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:39:29 -0500

The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) vigorously promotes positive changes in programs and policies that affect large numbers of children. With particular concern for very vulnerable children, OICA is committed to improving conditions for all children.
Our mission is to provide leadership throughout the state to stimulate change for children and youth to affirm the value and vulnerability of children and youth by raising awareness of their needs, and by promoting public policies, programs and preventive strategies to ensure that they reach their full potential.

A Look at Family Engagement in Mentoring

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:50:01 -0500

The National Assembly's Family Strengthening Policy Center has released "Mentoring as a Family Strengthening Strategy." Findings suggest youth mentoring that involves parents or caregivers hold significant promise for strengthening disadvantaged families with children.

Opportunity for All Campaign

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:49:00 -0500

STATEMENTS REGARDING CENSUS BUREAU REPORT ON POVERTY

MENTOR Online After-School Program Clearinghouse

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:51:38 -0500

If you want to add a mentoring component to your after-school program, the After-School Program Clearinghouse from MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership can give you guidance and tools to get started.

Leading the Way

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:47:04 -0500

By developing programs for youth grounded in American Indian tribal cultures, the National Indian Youth Leadership project is helping cultivate a new generation of strong leaders. Rob Capriccioso takes a look at the New Mexico-based organization.

Postcards for Recruiting Mentors

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:33:48 -0500

January is National Mentoring Month. To celebrate, the National Mentoring Center has designed a mentor recruitment postcard that local programs can give to their existing mentors to pass on to people they feel would make good mentors. The site also has tips for making your mentor

Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:31:33 -0500

Mentoring has become a popular strategy for helping youth stay on track, but setting up and sustaining a successful program takes some thought and know-how, according to this new guidebook. The manual

Straight to the Corner Office

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:24:50 -0500

A steady paycheck and a career track are great; but some low-income school children dream of something different, like starting their own businesses and being their own bosses. Connect for Kids intern Kate Ashford looks at a national program designed to give these kids the tools they need to succeed.

Leaving the Nest

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:18:52 -0500

Created by the vision and leadership of the Benton Foundation, Connect for Kids now takes a major step?to independence.

Wanted: More Militant Mentors for Mentoring

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:17:39 -0500

Even with a history of presidential endorsements, youth mentoring programs are disappearing. Inadequate funding, changing legislation and lack of commitment are some of the reasons of the decline. Bill Treanor of Youth Today takes a closer look.

Mentoring: A Promising Strategy

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:55:26 -0600

Mentoring programs can be effective tools for enhancing the positive development of youth, concludes this Child Trends analysis. Mentored youth are likely to have fewer school
absences, better attitudes toward school, fewer incidents of hitting others, less drug and alcohol abuse and improved attitudes and relationships with adults including their parents. But mentoring for a short duration may do more harm than good.

Clearing a Path to Nature

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:11:51 -0500

Former editor Richard Louv looked at why so many children today lack opportunities to explore, play and dream in the natural world—and what they have lost as a result. This time, he offers suggestions for bringing children back to nature.