Websites and Online Tools

Use the resources below from National Mentoring Resource Center partners to access information and materials to help strengthen your mentoring program.

Youth Mentoring Listserv

This listserv, which is hosted at the University of Illinois at Chicago by Dr. David DuBois, is designed to serve as a virtual community for sharing of ideas and resources among researchers and practitioners in the area of youth mentoring. To join, e-mail Dr. DuBois at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Center for Evidenced-Based Mentoring

The Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring is a collaboration between MENTOR and the University of Massachusetts-Boston led by leading mentoring researcher Dr. Jean Rhodes. The goal of the Center is to advance both the production and uptake of evidence-based practice in the field of youth mentoring. The Center accomplishes this goal through the production of research, the facilitation of collaborations, and the dissemination of evidence-based resources.

Center for Interdisciplinary Mentoring Research

The PSU Center for Interdisciplinary Mentoring Research, led by Dr. Thomas Keller, was created in 2010 to advance the field of mentoring, nationally and internationally, through innovative and rigorous research, education and knowledge sharing, and partnerships with organizations providing services.

OJJDP National Training and Technical Assistance Center

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)'s National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) delivers, brokers, and promotes the highest quality training and technical assistance to the juvenile justice field and its related criminal justice initiatives by utilizing a vast array of training and technical assistance resources funded through OJJDP and its partners.

Model Programs Guide

OJJDP’s Model Programs Guide (MPG) contains information about evidence-based juvenile justice and youth prevention, intervention, and reentry programs. It is a resource for practitioners and communities about what works, what is promising, and what does not work in juvenile justice, delinquency prevention, and child protection and safety.