Working With Specific Populations

Children of Incarcerated Parents

• Amachi: Mentoring Children of Prisoners in Philadelphia. Linda Jucovy, (June 2003, 48 pages). Public/Private Ventures and The Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (www.crrucs.org.) http://www.ppv.org/pdffiles/amachi.pdf

• Children Left Behind: Nation Magazine Editorial. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030929&s=boudin

• Families Left Behind: The Hidden Costs of Incarceration and Reentry. http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/310882_families_left_behind.pdf

• From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities January 30-31, 2002 sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Papers from the NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE. http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/prison2home02/

• Mothering Magazine: Debt to Society: The real Cost of Prisons (article on Children of Incarcerated parents) http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/prisons/index.html

• National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning developed an Information Packet: Children of Incarcerated Parents http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/downloads/children-of-incarcerate d-parents.pdf

• Prisoners Once Removed: The Impact of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities edited by Jeremy Travis and Michelle Waul. Urban Institute Press ISBN 0-87766-715-2 http://www.urban.org/pubs/prisoners/index.html

• Where Children Live When Parents Are Incarcerated  by Elizabeth I. Johnson and Jane Waldfogel. Joint Center for Poverty Research (JCPR) publishes a series of Policy Briefs. Vol.5; No.4. http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/00/notes/v7n2.pdf

E-Mentoring

• The Achievement Advocate Online Mentoring Community was founded in 2000 by Student Achievement and Advocacy Services, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping students maximize their potential. Each student enrolled in the program is assigned an on-line adult mentor. This personal coach joins with parents and teachers to create a team dedicated to building the life skills each student needs to set goals and achieve their dreams. www.achievementadvocate.org

• Be A Mentor. Employees of participating companies are email mentors for middle and high school students through the Be A Mentor Program. The goal of the projgram is to increase student achievement. Students learn Internet skills and connect with mentors who will guide and assist with classroom projects. http://www.beamentor.org/Be_a_mantor_set1.htm

• Connecting to Success is an electronic mentoring program, begun in 1999, designed to promote successful transition of youth with disabilities into adult life. The program uses a combination of e-mail and face-to-face meetings to facilitate mentoring relationships between young people and caring adults.
  http://ici.umn.edu/ementoring/

• The Digital Heros Campaign. Using the power of the internet to pair prominent individuals with teens from under-served communitites in online mentoring relationships.
  www.digitalheroes.org

• DO-IT / Camp Courage. Internet and College Preview Camp is an opportunity for teens with physical disabilities and/or speech, hearing or visual impairments to get an introduction to college life and get hands-on experiences with the Internet. The session is offered through a partnership between the University of Washington's DO-IT project and the Courage Center in Minnesota. Campers learn to access the wealth of information and support that is available on the Internet.
  www.washington.edu/doit/Camps/courage.html

• E-Buddies seeks to fulfill the mission of Best Buddies International by facilitating e-mail friendships between people with and without developmental disabilities. Individuals are matched in e-mail friendships based on age, gender, and similar interests. E-Buddies never matches individuals that reside in the same state. Participants must commit to the program for one calendar year and to e-mail their match once per week.
  www.ebuddies.org/about/index.html

• E-Mentoring Information. Governor’s Mentoring Partnership. http://www.mentoring.ca.gov/e-mentoring.shtm

• The Electronic Emissary Project is a Web-based telementoring service and resource center that helps kindergarten through grade 12 teachers and students with Internet access locate mentors who are experts in various disciplines, for purposes of setting up curriculum-based electronic exchanges among the teachers, their students, and the mentors.
  http://emissary.wm.edu/

• GEM-SET stands for Girl's Electronic Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Technology. This is a program designed to connect young women in high school with professional women in the science, engineering, and technology fields.
  www.uic.edu/orgs/gem-set/index.htm

• IBM MentorPlace is a comprehensive and structured online mentoring initiative that capitalizes on the knowledge, dedication, and enthusiasm of teachers and students, as well as on the expertise, experience, and volunteering spirit of IBM employees.
  www.Mentorplace.org

• icouldbe connects teens with career mentors over the Internet to help teens discover what they could be.
  icouldbe.org

• iMentor matches young people from underserved communities in New York City with adult volunteers. Mentors & mentees email one another regularly, meet in-person a few times each semester at iMentor-sponsored events, and collaborate on-line on projects designed to improve students' reading, writing, research, and technology skills.
  www.imentor.org

• The International Telementor Program (ITP) facilitates electronic mentoring relationships between professional adults and students worldwide, and is recognized as the leader in the field of academic based mentoring. Since 1995 over 15,000 students throughout nine countries have received support, encouragement, and professional guidance. ITP serves students in K-12 and home school environments as well as college and university settings.
  www.telementor.org

• Making the Case for E-mentoring: Suggested Talking Points http://www.mentoring.ca.gov/pdf/e-mentor_talking_points.pdf 

• Mentors Online: The E-mentoring Tool Kit ^TM Fact Sheet  http://www.mentoring.ca.gov/pdf/e-mentor_factsheet.pdf 

• Net at Two Rivers - Follow the Yellow Brick Road
  Net at Two Rivers(N2R) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation dedicated to serving youth in disadvantaged areas using the power of the Internet. They provide a secure virtual classroom called "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" Telementoring (FYBR) where volunteers mentor youth from disadvantaged areas and improve their lives. The FYBR goal is to improve workforce readiness skills in youth and achieve greater quantity and quality of mentoring than is possible with in-person matches. FYBR is unique because it is the world's first interactive, worldwide-web-based automation of the processes associated with mentoring. This includes all the steps associated with mentoring: recruitment, application, orientation, training, screening, matching, telementor/youth interaction, monitoring, closure, incentives and recognition of the youths, mentors and instructors.
  www.n2r.net
  www.fybr.org

• NetMentors.Org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that helps students develop career aspirations by enlisting the support of experienced industry professionals as online mentors. The product of NetMentors.Org is a career development tool that introduces young people to arts, business, legal, science, and technology careers. The program connects teens with experienced professionals who provide advice, field questions, and assist the students.
  www.NetMentors.org

• Science Buddies is a non-profit organization empowering students from all walks of life to help themselves and each other develop a love of science and an understanding of the scientific method. With the help of Mentors and Advisors, Science Buddies helps students improve their science skills and literacy, and inspires them to consider additional study or careers in science.
  www.sciencebuddies.org/

• Theme: Using Technology. National Mentoring Center.
  Bulletin #9, Winter 2002 Features: Why technology matters, building an effective program website, experts discuss the potential of e-mentoring, using e-mail for peer networking. Bulletin #9, Winter 2002

• Theme: Faith-Based Mentoring. National Mentoring Center. 
  Bulletin #12, Summer 2003 Features: Profiles of successful faith-based programs, tips for starting a program, updates on national faith-based efforts. Bulletin #12, Summer 2003

Foster Youth

• Foster Youth Mentorship Training for Program Managers (2003). 
  Brenda Ingram, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. and Dustianne North, M.S.W. The EMT Group, Inc. 
  The Foster Youth Mentoring Training for Program Managers is designed to assist programs who serve youth in foster care in interacting with the foster care system; dealing appropriately with the special needs of foster youth; understanding the experience of being raised in foster care; and creating programs that are friendly and accessible to foster youth and the agencies that serve them placements. Training participants learn to map the resources available to foster youth, and the role of a mentor and the mentor program within that map are discussed. Ideas on how to construct matches with clinical support are given, and integration of the mentor into the foster youth's treatment team is encouraged. http://www.emt.org/userfiles/FosterYouthSeries5.pdf

Gangs

• Introduction to Youth Gangs (1999). The EMT Group, Inc. www.emt.org/userfiles/Gangs.pdf

• Mentoring Sexual Minority Youth (Technical Assistance Packet #2). National Mentoring Center. 
  The National Mentoring Center is very excited about this newest Technical Assistance Packet. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth are often overlooked by mentoring and youth serving agencies. This guide examines the struggles of these populations and looks at way in which mentoring agencies and individual mentors can reach out and help. Download the PDF of Sexual Minority Youth

Teen Pregnancy

• Teen Pregnancy Mentoring Programs. Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention website: http://www.etr.org/recapp/theories/mentoring

• Blisters and Bright Stars and Crossing the Tracks (1999). A curriculum designed for working with youth from impoverished backgrounds and Prevention Tactic from EMT Group. 
  Download Blisters and Bright Stars
  Download Crossing the Tracks.

• Theme: Minority Mentoring. National Mentoring Center.
  Bulletin #2, Summer 1999 Features: targeted minority recruitment, profile of I Have a Dream-Houston, successful match profile, new and useful Web and Library resources. Bulletin #2, Summer 1999

• Theme: Program Diversity. National Mentoring Center. Bulletin #10, Spring 2002 Features: Strengthening program diversity, reaching out to victims of violence, issues with same/cross-race matching, resources for mentee development. Bulletin #10, Spring 2002

• Transformative Mentoring. The Mentoring Center. Classification of Mentoring Relationship Types, 1994, revised 2000

• When Stakes Are High: Research-Based Mentoring for Youth With Multiple Risk Factors (2003). 
  Brenda Ingram, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.; Denise Johnston, M.D.; and Dustianne North, M.S.W., The EMT Group, Inc. www.emt.org/userfiles/WhenStakesAreHigh.pdf

• Theme: Working With Special Needs Populations. National Mentoring Center.
  Bulletin #3, Fall 1999 Features: Remembering forgotten kids, mentors for kids in foster care, innovative program for children of a mentally-ill parent, mentoring gay and lesbian youth. Bulletin #3, Fall 1999

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