Program Design & Management

The theme of the 2nd Annual National Forum on Dropout Prevention Strategies for Native Communities "Reconnecting Native Youth to Education." Presentations will emphasize a variety of strategies that work with native students who are at risk of...

This year's Forum is designed to enhance the leadership skills of all adults who are seeking to strengthen interventions among school, community, and families, especially to assist those in at-risk situations.

The purpose of this conference is to provide a clear understanding of what evidence-based means and the skills that program providers can use every day to improve their chances of achieving positive outcomes for their communities. Most...

Connect with a panel of leading mentoring experts about trends and developments in the mentoring movement.

This worksheet is useful for developing a communications plan by laying out the necessary steps, including identifying the audience and resources available, as well as creating a three-point messag

Part of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's (OJJDP) Girls Study Group series, this bulletin describes how four factors (the presence of a caring adult, school connectedness, school success, and religiosity) influence girls...

A group of 12 federal departments and agencies have unveiled a new Web site, FindYouthInfo.gov, to help community organizations find resources and tools to support youth efforts. The site, spearheaded by the Interagency Working Group on Youth...

This methodological brief from Public/Private Ventures is designed to provide both program operators and researchers with practical advice about how to assess a program's implementation and eff

From program management to volunteer recruitment, from mentor screening to match monitoring, from how mentors communicate with program staff to how they communicate with their mentees, and from agency marketing to soliciting donors, new...

January is National Mentoring Month (NMM). This campaign, intended to highlight the impact of mentoring and encourage citizens to volunteer as mentors, offers mentoring programs an opportunity for building awareness and support to their programs...