Other NMRC and Research Board Publications

Other NMRC Publications

Law Enforcement Mentoring Guide (PDF)

This product was developed in partnership with MENTOR California and MENTOR Independence Region, who conducted focus groups with youth in their regions. The result is a guide that discussed the challenges that opportunity youth face, workforce skills that they need to be developing, best practices for educational and workforce readiness programs, and ways to strengthen a program’s impact.

Workforce Development Guide for Opportunity Youth (PDF)

Youth Mentee Guide: Grow Your Mentor Relationships (PDF)

This guide offers tips and recommendations from young people for young people on how to make the most of a mentoring relationship. Mentees will learn more about what to expect from a mentor and the important role they play in making this relationship meaningful.

Other Research Board Publications

The following publications and tools have been authored by the NMRC Research Board to deepen the field’s understanding of important topics and to provide materials that build on research to improve program practice.

How to Maximize Mentoring for Your Young Person: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers (PDF)

This guide offers a brief introduction to formal mentoring and its benefits to youth, and outlines how parents and caregivers can help cultivate and support these relationships for their young person. Included are resources and tools to help caregivers identify quality mentoring programs and guidance on finding the right program for their young person.

Research to Practice Brief Social Media, Digital Wellness, & Mentoring (PDF)

This brief provides an overview of research on youth wellbeing in the context of digital technology, potential benefits of digital technology for personal development and social connection, and cyberbullying and cybervictimization. Included are recommendations for mentors and mentoring programs to mitigate the harms and maximize the potential of digital technology for teens.

A Brief Primer on Youth Participatory Action Research for Mentoring Programs (PDF)

This brief primer provides an overview of youth participatory action research (YPAR). YPAR is a promising approach for elevating youth voices in mentoring programs to create positive change.

The Effects of Law-Enforcement Mentoring on Youth: A Scoping Review (PDF)

This brief scoping review provides an overview of current research findings relating to law enforcement mentoring of youth.

Tools to Strengthen Match Support and Closure

This suite of tools for youth mentoring programs was developed to address something that a growing body of research suggests can be a major challenge in service delivery: the proper support and eventual closure of matches.

Naturally-occurring mentoring relationships & Criminal justice outcomes: A preliminary examination using add health public use data (PDF)

This report uses data from the public use data set of the National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to investigate the relationship between youth
reports of having a mentor and subsequent criminal justice-related outcomes.