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February 23, 2012 | New Public Health Post
NPH: Jamie, how did your background as a Major League Baseball player, and your career as a dad, inform how you go about this work? Jamie Moyer: The baseball side allows us to be on a stage and to speak on behalf of these causes. Enlightening people ...
February 1, 2004 | Program Result
From 1998 to 2002, project staff at the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a national media campaign—the Harvard Mentoring Project—to recruit large numbers of qualified mentors to build supportive relationships with at-risk youth.
June 1, 2004 | Program Result
The California Mentor Foundation worked to hire additional staff and build its communications and research capabilities.
August 1, 2003 | Program Result
For 18 months beginning in mid-2000, Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, tested the feasibility of evaluating a Portland, Ore.-based mentoring program for high-risk children, called Friends of the Children.
December 1, 2002 | Program Result
The National Mentoring Partnership Incorporated developed and implemented a project designed to discourage high-risk urban youth from engaging in health-damaging behavior and to encourage them to pursue activities geared toward a productive future.
July 1, 2000 | Program Result
Starting in January 1997, the National Council on the Aging, Washington, implemented the first initiative in the country to match older adults with young people in a pregnancy prevention project.
July 1, 2002 | Program Result
From 1997 to 2000, the Research Foundation of the State University of New York (SUNY), Albany, created a computer-based distance-learning program designed to train clinical preceptors who work with student nurse midwives.
January 1, 2008 | Book
This chapter examines the research on mentoring and Foundation-funded programs that encourage it.
March 1, 2006 | Program Result
The Minority Health Professions Foundation sponsored the 19th Annual Symposium on Career Opportunities in Biomedical Sciences for minority high school and college students.
National Program
Program to support a three-city demonstration project designed to connect at-risk urban youth with responsible adults in activities after school.