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Youth Development

LGBTQ

• Mentoring Tactics: Mentoring Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Youth

• Youth at disproportionate risk

• Mentoring for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Questioning, Intersex, Gender NonConforming Youth

Underserved Youth

• Defining Youth at Risk

• The Role of Risk: Mentoring Experiences and Outcomes for Youth with Varying Risk Profiles

• Do Youth Mentoring Programs Change the Perspectives and Improve the life opportunities of at risk youth?

• Supporting Young People in the Wake of Violence and Trauma

• Positive Support: Mentoring and Depression Among High-Risk Youth

• Youth Initiated Mentoring: Investigating a new approach to working with vulnerable adolescents

• Mentoring Immigrant and Refugee Youth-Toolkit for Program Coordinators

• Mentoring for First-Generation Immigrant and Refugee Youth

• Guide to Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color-MBK and MENTOR

• The Need for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities

• Mentoring for Youth with Mental Health Challenges

• Mentoring for Children with Incarcerated Parents

• Mentoring for Youth with Backgrounds of Involvement in Commercial Activity

Mentoring Impact

• Mentoring: A Promising Strategy for Youth Development

• The Value in Mentoring our Youth

• Evaluation of the DYCD YMI Cornerstone Mentoring

• Mentoring: At the Crossroads for Education, Business and Community

• The Mentoring Effect: Young Peoples Perspective on the outcomes and availability of mentoring

Dropout Rates

• Graduation Rates in New York State hits a new high 79.4%

Chronic Absenteeism

• What is Chronic Absence

• Student Absenteeism Indicators on Children and Youth

• Chronic Elementary Absenteeism a Problem hidden in Plain Sight

• Preventing Missed Opportunity: Taking Collective Action to Confront Chronic Absence

Risk Behaviors

• The Use of Mentoring Programs to Improve Energy Balance Behaviors in High Risk Children

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Mentoring Best Practices

Recruitment

• The Importance of effective recruitment and selection

Screening

• Screening mentors, you may have to say no

Training

• Readiness Matter- The importance and Impact of Mentor Training

Orientation

• Tips for intake and orientation for mentees and parents/guardians/ mentee orientation manual

• Mentor Orientation Training, Activities, Agenda, Roles, and Expectations

Matching

• Matching by Race and Gender in Mentoring Relationships: Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize

• Validating a Mentoring Relationship Quality Scale: Does Match Strength Predict Match Length?

• The Influence of same versus cross-gender matching in formal youth mentoring programs

Management

• “Mentoring Up”: Learning to Manage Your Mentoring Relationships

• Managing Mentoring Challenges (Tip sheet)

Retention

• More Than Saying "Thank You": Comprehension Approaches to Mentor Retention

• Top 8 Ways to Show Volunteer Appreciation

Match Closure

• Bringing Closure to the Mentoring Relationship

• "They always come, and they never say goodbye" Understanding Healthy Closure in Youth Mentoring

Additional Resources

• Developing Youth Through a Growth Mindset

• Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid

• Closing the Academic Achievement Gap for African American Boys

• Invisible Students Bridging the Widest Achievement Gaps

• Closing the Opportunity Gap: Driving School Success

• Mentors: How to Maximize Mentoring Success

• Mentoring Millennials

• What The Best Mentors Do

• Mentoring Youth Who May Have Experienced Trauma

Webinars about mentoring youth who have experienced Trauma:

• A New Lens for Mentoring: Trauma Informed Care