Mentoring Youth Impacted by Opioid Use and Misuse

Description of Resource:

This resource provides a high-level introduction for mentors, programs, and caring adults seeking to understand the opioid epidemic and its potential intersections with impacted young people and mentoring. A trauma-informed mentoring approach serves as the foundation for the guide’s application; adverse childhood experiences and associated protective risk factors are discussed in relation to identifying and referring support measures. This guide seeks to assist in contextualizing the opioid epidemic as a disease.

Goals:

To equip mentors, programs, and caring adults with resources and tools to best support young people who have been impacted directly or indirectly by opioid use and misuse through a trauma-informed mentoring approach.

Target Population/Eligibility of Target Sites:

Mentoring programs and coordinators, mentors, caring adults/natural mentors working with youth impacted by opioid substance use and misuse.

Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice:

All

Key Personnel:

N/A

Additional Information:

This publication was funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Resource Name:

Mentoring Youth Impacted by Opioid Use and Misuse

Publisher/Source:

MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership

Author:

Elizabeth Joy, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership

Date of Publication:

2019

Resource Type:

Mentor Guides and Handouts

Evaluation Methodology:

Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

Evaluation Outcomes:

Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

Evaluation Validity:

Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

Accessing and Using this Resource:

This resource can be accessed freely online on the NMRC website here.

References:

Evidence Base: N/A

Additional References: N/A