Mentor Nebraska

Each year, mentor nebraska provides valuable member benefits that impact the quality of mentoring across the sector. One of the benefits is costfree training and technical assistance to youth providers, mentoring professionals, mentors, school personnel, community/businessleaders and public officials to focus on best practices for youth mentoring. In 2023: we trained 300+ individuals through 20+ trainings and provided 825 hours of technical assistance support. In addition, direct funding for background screenings allows member partners to utliize screening practices to ensure thorough vetting is done of volunteers matched through their mentoring programs.

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.