Youth Mentoring
One-on-one mentoring relationships can provide critical support and guidance to young people of all ages, particularly youth in difficult circumstances. For example, mentoring by a caring adult can change the trajectory of the lives of young people in the juvenile justice system by providing positive role models, life skills training, and hope for the future. EDC works with juvenile correctional facilities, police officers, community groups, and support services to design and foster mentoring relationships that benefit from research on effective programs. Our approach incorporates innovative uses of media and technology to expand the reach and impact of adult mentors.
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Children with Parents in Prison |
EDC’s Center for Children & Families (CC&F), in partnership with Aid to Incarcerated Mothers (AIM), is training a cadre of mentors who will support children in Massachusetts, who have a parent in a state or federal prison. Training sessions provide participants with information about effective mentoring and issues facing the children they mentor, and offer them support that is tailored to the challenges they face.
Read a feature article about the project.  |
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Violence Prevention Training |
EDC trains community police officers to deliver the curriculum, Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders, which is part of EDC’s middle- and high-school curriculum, Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM). The training prepares police officers to become mentors and co-innovators in the program.
Read more about Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders in EDC's publications catalog.
Learn more violence prevention on the THTM Web site. |
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Adjudicated Youth |
EDC’s Cleveland office manages a series of projects that provides services to adjudicated youth in Ohio and to organizations serving that population. For example, the VOICES for Youth project designs and delivers comprehensive training for volunteers from faith-based organizations who are serving as mentors to youth offenders.
Read an article about the VOICES project.
Learn more about the projects in the Cleveland office. |
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Telementoring Relationships |
EDC’s Center for Children and Technology (CCT) pioneered the use of e-mail and the Internet to create one-to-one “telementoring” relationships that linked female high school students with women professionals in science and technical fields. One of the project’s goals was to provide female role models for young women considering courses and careers in science, engineering, computing, or related fields.
Learn more about telementoring on the CCT Web site.
Read the article "Preparing for Successful Telementoring Relationships."
Read the article "Telementoring: Using Online Communication for a Student Mentoring Project."
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Juvenile Offenders |
EDC worked with the Safety-Net program (funded by the U.S. Department of Education) to distribute educational television programs to more than 60 juvenile correction facilities in Texas, Florida, and New York. The TV411 programs, which also air on PBS stations across the countries, use adult learners as role models for youth and adults with low-literacy levels.
Read an article about the program in a newsletter of Kentucky Educational Television (which distributes TV411 materials). See page 2 of the newsletter (PDF, Adobe Acrobat required).
Visit the TV411 Web site, developed by EDC’s Adult Literacy Media Alliance. |
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