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A Framework for Supporting and Strengthening OJJDP Mentoring Programs
Mentoring has a long history and exists in many cultures and commun
Building Staff Capacity, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Implementing Evidence Based Models, Program Design & Management, Program Outcomes
Assessment for Mentoring Programs Integrated into a Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
This TCAM tool outlines a process for Safe Schools/Healthy Students mentoring programs to assess implementation and identify priorities for building program capacity.
Building Staff Capacity, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Evaluation, Implementing Evidence Based Models, Match Closure, Match Support, Mentee Training, Mentor Recruitment and Screening, Mentor Training, Partnership/Collaboration Building, Program Design & Management, Program Outcomes, Program Sustainability, Youth recruitment
Building a Nation of Hope for Latino Children
http://www.nlci.org/DLN/2010/Forum2010/2010_National_Forum.p...
NLCI convened 150 representatives and youth from La Promesa organizations (programs that utilize best practices for working with young Latinos), its national network of Latino...
Cultural and Linguistic Competence
Celebrating Black History Month Calendar
Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history.
Cultural and Linguistic Competence
Chapin Hall Issue Brief: Race and Child Welfare
http://www.chapinhall.org/research/brief/race-and-child-welf...
This brief focuses on the problems facing black families and their children, and the related risks to black children victimized by maltreatment and in need of protection and...
Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Foster Care
Cultural and Linguistic Competence Toolkit
The CLC Toolkit features three important aspects of cultural and linguistic competence: organizational structure, engagement, and services/activities/interventions. The toolkit...
Cultural and Linguistic Competence
Diversity and Inclusion in Youth Development: What We Can Learn from Marginalized Young People
http://data.memberclicks.com/site/nae4a/JYD_110603final.pdf
The authors offer key insights as well as strategies relevant for diversity and inclusion for youth development programs.
Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Program Design & Management
Engaging Parents and Caregivers in Mentoring Programs
Everyone benefits when mentoring programs engage mentees’ parents and caregivers—youth, mentors, and the program as a whole.
Building Staff Capacity, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Match Support, Program Design & Management
Key Learnings from Mentoring Research and Implications for Practice
Key Learnings from Mentoring Research and Implications for Practice examines 11 critical questions that have been explored by leading researchers, with the goal of offerin
Building Staff Capacity, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Evaluation, Foster Care, Gang Prevention and Intervention, Implementing Evidence Based Models, Juvenile Justice and Re-entry, Match Support, Mentor Recruitment and Screening, Mentor Training, Program Design & Management, Program Outcomes, Program Sustainability, Youth recruitment
Mentoring Program Assessment
This TCAM tool outlines a process for mentoring programs to assess implementation and identify priorities for building program capacity.
Building Staff Capacity, Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Evaluation, Implementing Evidence Based Models, Match Closure, Match Support, Mentee Training, Mentor Recruitment and Screening, Mentor Training, Partnership/Collaboration Building, Program Design & Management, Program Outcomes, Program Sustainability, Youth recruitment
Research in Brief, The Code of the Street and African-American Adolescent Violence
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/223509.pdf
The “code of the street” theory, developed by Yale professor Elijah Anderson, presents an explanation for high rates of violence among African-American adolescents.
Cultural and Linguistic Competence
Ten Strategies for Recruiting African American Male Mentors
http://msiy.edc.org/publications/MSIY%20publications/MSIY_10...
Mentoring programs often find it challenging to recruit African American adult men to serve as volunteer mentors for African American male youth—especially young people...
Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Mentor Recruitment and Screening
The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color: A Review of Research, Pathways and Progress
http://youngmenofcolor.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/...
This report from the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center explores the issues affecting the academic performance of young men of color.
Cultural and Linguistic Competence