Mentoring - Funding

Evaluation of Mentoring Initiative for System Involved Youth
This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention funding program was established to support a program evaluation to assess the process and effect of mentoring programs for youth involved in the juvenile justice system, reentry, or foster care.

Latino Youth Mentoring Program
This funding opportunity from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention focused on developing and supporting a peer mentoring program that would proactively reach youth before they were recruited by gangs to develop and strengthen protective factors against gang involvement and other problem behaviors.

Mentoring Children of Prisoners Program
The Mentoring Children of Prisoners Program is awarded to faith-based and community organizations, along with tribes and state and local government entities, which provide children and youth of incarcerated parents with caring adult mentors.

Mentoring Grants
The Department of Education mentoring grants are provided to programs that assist children in receiving support and guidance from a mentor; improve the academic performance of children; improve interpersonal relationships between children and their peers, teachers, other adults, and family members; reduce the dropout rate of children; and reduce juvenile delinquency and involvement in gangs by children.

Mentoring Initiative for System Involved Youth
This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention funding program was established to support the development and enhancement of mentoring programs for youth involved in the juvenile justice system, reentry, and foster care. The initiative seeks to promote collaboration among community organizations and agencies committed to supporting mentoring services for such system involved youth.

National Mentoring Programs
This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention funding program has been designed to support the development and enhancement of mentoring programs. Applicants were invited to propose the implementation of ready initiatives that will assist in the development and maturity of community programs to provide mentoring services to populations that are underserved due to locations, shortage of mentors, special physical or mental challenges of the targeted population, or other such situations identified by the community in need of mentoring services.

Recovery Act Local Youth Mentoring Initiative
This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention program was developed in an effort to reduce juvenile delinquency, violence, gang participation, school failure, and drop-out rates. This solicitation has been designed to support local organizations that develop, implement, or expand local mentoring programs leading to measurable, positive outcomes for at-risk youth.

Support for Mentoring Initiatives
This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention program supports the development and enhancement of mentoring programs.

Strengthening Youth Mentoring through Community Partnerships
This funding opportunity invited applicants to propose initiatives that would increase local communities’ capacity to develop and implement mentoring programs and provide mentoring services, particularly to populations of at-risk youth who are underserved due to location, shortage of mentors, special physical or mental challenges, or other situations identified by the community in need of mentoring services.

Training and Technical Assistance Program for Mentoring Initiative System Involved Youth
This program was designed to provide training and technical assistance for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Mentoring Initiative for System Involved Youth, which supports the development and enhancement of mentoring programs for youth involved in the juvenile justice system, reentry, and foster care.

Tribal Mentoring Programs for At-Risk Tribal Youth
This solicitation invited national tribal organizations and national organizations, including community, secular, and faith-based nonprofit organizations to propose the continuation, expansion or enhancement of initiatives that will assist in the development and maturity of community programs to provide mentoring services to populations that are underserved due to locations, shortage of mentors, or emotional behavioral challenges of the targeted population, or other such situations identified by the community in need of mentoring services.

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