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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.
January 1, 2008 | Book
This chapter examines the research on mentoring and Foundation-funded programs that encourage it.
National Program
Program to support a three-city demonstration project designed to connect at-risk urban youth with responsible adults in activities after school.
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.
January 25, 2013 | Program Result
Experience Corps engages older volunteers to tutor - with a focus on reading - and mentor low-income kindergarten through third-grade students. It expanded and became an independent nonprofit organization.
October 8, 2010 | Program Result
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol delivered a comprehensive array of services designed to promote the health and stability of young Black and Latino males in the Harlem neighborhoods of New York City.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result
Chicago first lady Maggie Daley, chair of After School Matters, deliberately focused the program on teenagers.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result
With 29 miles of lakefront and about 250 pools, the Chicago Park District (Park District) needed about 1,000 lifeguards in 2000-more than any other city in the United States.