Mentoring Youth and Young Parents: A Guidebook for Programs Helping Youth and Young Parents Navigate a Pathway to Self-Sufficiency

This Mentoring Guidebook, developed as part of Department of Labor's Young Parents Demonstration, was based in part on the experiences of the four grantees. While it was developed to support the four demonstration grantees, this guidebook offers user-friendly guidance to local workforce programs and agencies that want to develop and implement mentoring programs to help youth or young parents improve their employment and education or training outcomes. Authors provide a five-step guidebook that included “suggestions, strategies, examples, and tools intended to help organizations set up a mentoring program or add a mentoring component to an existing youth services program.