Request No-Cost Technical Assistance for Your Youth Mentoring Program

– Are you a new mentoring organization looking to raise mentor recruitment and retention?

Does your program want support unpacking the latest mentoring research and learning best practices for managing or monitoring mentoring relationships?

Is your organization struggling to find the capacity to design a logic model to share with board members or an evaluation for mentors and mentees?

Sounds like it might be time to request our no-cost technical assistance!

What is Technical Assistance?

Technical Assistance (TA) is customized, no-cost resource support that the NMRC offers to mentoring programs. Since 2017, the NMRC has provided TA to over 2,365 youth mentoring programs across the nation, helping address the programs’ individual needs and improve their implementation of specific mentoring practices!

Additional Resources

  • Curious what happens after a TA request is submitted? Check out this helpful flow chart for a visual on the whole process!
  • New to TTA360 or just having trouble navigating the system? This requester user guide has answers to some of the most common issues faced by new users. But if you still have questions, please contact the OJJDP TTA Help Desk at ojjdptta@usdoj.gov.
In what areas can TA providers offer support? Mentor/mentee recruitment, screening, and training, program operations, management, design and planning, and evaluation, monitoring and support, matching, match closure, partnership development, and NQMS.

View a tutorial on submitting a request for Technical Assistance below!

Testimonials

Our staff gained extensive knowledge on logic models, theories of change, and evidence-based evaluation content and processes. We also learned the latest thinking around evaluating programs during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the newest research on mentoring evaluations in general.”

“Our TA Provider was wonderful and took the time to understand our program, our strengths, and areas for improvement. They were extremely easy to work with; wonderful communication via email, phone, and face to face. We look forward to collaborating in the future to continue improving our program.”

“Our TA Provider was easy to work with and helped our organization strengthen programs while ensuring that we were knowledgeable about new resources, requirements, and trends in mentoring.”

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