Ensuring a Brighter Future for All of America’s Youth

The Corporation will meet the needs of our nation’s youth by:

• Recruiting and supporting mentors for youth (with special attention towards children of incarcerated parents);
• Engaging youth in at-risk and disadvantaged environments in meaningful service experiences; and
• Developing community volunteering to strengthen positive youth connections with family, schools, and community (including faith-based institutions).

—Corporation for National and Community Service Strategic Plan 2006–2010
Focus Area Two: Ensuring a Brighter Future for All of America's Youth

Following is a sampling of the resources available to assist you in meeting the Corporation's goals in this focus area.

Online Publications

• Volunteers Mentoring Youth: Implications for Closing the Mentoring Gap, a new report from the Corporation
• The National Agenda for Action: How to Close America's Mentoring Gap by MENTOR
• Mentoring in America 2005: A Snapshot of the Current State of Mentoring (pdf) by MENTOR

Effective Practices

• Mentoring incarcerated youth to reduce recidivism
  
• Building strong relationships in mentoring programs
  
• Reducing delinquency through service
  
• Using family clubs to maintain community well being

Lending Library Resources

• Promise and Challenge of Mentoring High-Risk Youth: Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative (M2696) (pdf format)
• Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development (M2432) (pdf format)
• Stand by Me: The Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth (M2181)
• Group Mentoring: A Study of Mentoring Groups in Three Programs (M2994)

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Resources

• At-Risk Youth, Juvenile Justice, Violence Prevention, Youth Courts and Service-Learning: Selected Resources
• Hot Topic: At Risk Youth

Links to Useful Websites

• MENTOR
• Youth Service America
• National Mentoring Center
  

T/TA Providers

• LEARNS
  
• Public/Private Ventures

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