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Mentor will continue to enhance a comprehensive website with mentoring resources and engaging tools for practitioners, and convene an expert research board that reviews the evidence base for specific program models and practices, while continuing to deliver high-quality technical assistance to OJJDP grantees and the mentoring field at scale. Mentor will also provide innovative opportunities for programs to improve practices that promote racial equity, deepen the NMRC's commitment to culturally-specific mentoring organizations and information, and address the specific needs of OJJDP grantees through customized learning and engagement strategies.

Mentor will partner with OJJDP to deliver an interactive, practitioner-friendly NMRC website and its comprehensive catalog of reviews and resources, including OJJDP grantee contributions, a grantee geomap, smart tools, a practitioner blog, discussion boards, and multimedia. It will raise awareness and continue the development of mentoring best practices through evidence reviews, measurement tools, a research symposium, professional learning communities, research-to-practice videos, and a youth-centered study of the mentoring experiences of BIPOC girls. Finally, it will deliver online and in-person trainings on topics of need, a new grantee orientation in partnership with OJJDP, and 17,000 hours of customized technical assistance for grantees and other programs across the nation with a focus on equity and inclusion, substance misuse, and juvenile justice-involved youth.

Together, Mentor and its partners possess the collective vision, expertise, and capacity to deliver a successful and efficient OJJDP NMRC. Limited activities that may meet the DOJ regulatory definition of research will be confirmed through consultation with OJJDP to ensure appropriate approvals. Progress toward goals will be measured systematically using multiple methods, including web analytics and pre- and post-surveys measuring knowledge gained. In partnership with OJJDP, Mentor and its partners will build the capacity of mentoring organizations to deliver the quality mentoring relationships that can transform outcomes for America's youth.

Mentor: The National Mentoring Partnership

THIS PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF HIGH QUALITY YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THROUGH THIS PROGRAM, YOUTH MENTORING ORGANIZATIONS AND INTERESTED COMMUNITIES CAN ACCESS EVIDENCE-BASED RESOURCES AND TRAINING MATERIALS ON THE OJJDP NATIONAL MENTORING RESOURCE CENTER WEBSITE AS WELL AS REQUEST FREE TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN IMPLEMENTING SAFE, QUALITY AND EFFECTIVE MENTORING PRACTICES FOR YOUTH.

16.726 - Juvenile Mentoring Program

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) [DOJ - OJP]

Boston, Massachusetts 02110 United States

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OJJDP FY 2022 National Mentoring Resource Center (O-OJJDP-2022-171221)

Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 09/30/23 to 10/31/26 and the total obligations have increased 749% from $921,082 to $7,822,988.