MENTOR NEBRASKA

Mentor nebraska has consistently sought to bring innovation to the mentoring sector by helping to establish "new models" of mentoring that reach audiences in unique and supportive ways. We introduced a new evidenced-based mentoring model, called success mentors, and the model is being used to support nearly 200 chronically absent youth in omaha public schools, millard public schools, eight years ago, we were the first in the country to initiate another new mentoring model, called youth initiated mentoring (yim) to support juvenile justice youth. National resesarchers and evaluators have called our model "game changing" for supporting this audience. This program is funded with public dollars to prevent youth from recidivating with the justice system.