Resources for Mentoring Programs

The National Mentoring Resource Center provides a collection of mentoring handbooks, curricula, manuals, and other resources that practitioners can use to implement and further develop program practices.

This growing collection of resources have all been reviewed by the National Mentoring Resource Center Research Board. They all show some level of evidence*, however are broken into two tiers depending on the extent. Most items are directly available for download here or elsewhere online. Learn more about the review process for programs, practices, and resources. You can also nominate additional programs, practices, and resources for review and inclusion on this site.

*Note: The evidence basis for references to effectiveness made in the titles or content of the Resources listed on this website have not been reviewed or approved by the NMRC Research Board unless otherwise indicated.


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 dldubois@uic.edu.


Center for Evidenced-Based Mentoring

Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring logo

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.