Part G of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act of 1974, as amended in 1992 (Pub. L. 93-415: 42 U.S.C. 5667e et seq.), established a new delinquency prevention program—the Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP). Through the JUMP legislation, Congress authorized the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to competitively award three year grants to community based not-for-profit organizations or to local educational agencies (LEA’s) to support implementation and expansion of collaborative mentoring projects. JUMP is designed to provide one-to-one mentoring for youth at risk of delinquency, gang involvement, educational failure, or dropping out of school. Included in the authorizing legislation was a requirement that a report be prepared for Congress which describes the nature, status, and successes of the Juvenile Mentoring Program (Sec. 288H). OJJDP is pleased to provide this report.

Information for this report was gathered from JUMP grantee proposals, from regularly submitted grantee progress reports, and from direct phone contacts with program coordinators and other staff. The information primarily reflects activities that took place during the first quarter of FY 1998 (October 1, 1997-December 31, 1997), but also includes information from earlier fiscal years. This information represents initial data gathered as part of a national evaluation of mentoring as implemented through the individual JUMP projects. At the time of the preparation of this report, the two groups of grantees that contributed data were:

• Cohort I grantees that originally were funded in FY 1995 and were in their third year of operations, and

• Cohort II grantees that were funded in FY 1997 and were in their start-up year of operations.

The 1998 Report to Congress begins with an overview of the principles guiding OJJDP’s approach to juvenile crime prevention and the community environment impacting that approach. The second chapter describes the individual JUMP grants and the intervention models that grantees have selected to implement in their communities. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 provide descriptions of the youth being served, their volunteer mentors, and the nature of their mentoring relationship. Finally, the report examines initial evaluation findings and some promising indicators of success, and presents anticipated directions for future mentoring and mentoring-related activities.

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1998 Report to Congress: Juvenile Mentoring Program		OJJDP Report December 1998