Youth Mentoring

The Youth Mentoring Program was begun on October 1, 1996 and is fully funded by a grant from the Department of Children and Families.

GOAL: The goal of the program is to provide one hundred Department of Children and Families youth with capable, caring adults (over age 21) mentors. Research has shown that an adult mentor in a youth’s life can enhance their educational goals, attainment of these goals, and increase the likelihood that they will avoid risk taking behaviors.

• The program recruits, screens, trains, matches and supervises 100 adult mentors who are matched with DCF youth from the ages of 14-23 years old.

• Mentors are asked to commit to a year of meeting with a youth for a minimum of one hour per week and to call the youth weekly.