Welcome to the Juvenile Justice Project (JJP) Youth Mentoring Blog. The JJP is a collaboraton established in New Hampshire's North Country in order to prevent youth court petitions and is an active working group of the area's Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition and initiative of North Country Health Consortium.
The Youth Mentoring Collaboration is supported by a grant from the NH Charitable Foundation and the Tillotson Fund. It is the result of an assessment process that identified the needs of local organizations that supported adult mentoring of youth and wanted to share ideas and efforts at volunteer recruitment, retention, protocols, training, and celebration. An important element of the Collaboration is to establish a Volunteer Mentor Clearing House to inform interested community members of where volunteers are needed.
It's hoped that this blog will be used for communicating developments for and by members of the Collaboration; for meeting and training information; as a resource for information on mentoring and mentoring best practices; and to celebrate our youth mentoring organizations and those volunteers who have taken time to support and celebrate our young people. It will also be a vehicle to share concerns and questions regarding youth mentoring and hopefully provide a platform for the sharing of tips and ideas.
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