Researching the Referral Stage of Youth Mentoring in Six Juvenile Justice Settings: An Exploratory Analysis

In October 2012, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) released a study prepared under a grant from OJJDP by the Global Youth Justice and the National Partnership for Juvenile Services that examines the referral stage of the mentoring process across six juvenile justice system settings: Juvenile Corrections, Juvenile Detention, Juvenile Probation, Delinquency Court, Youth/Teen Court, and Dependency Court. The report provides an overview of youth mentoring with focused attention on at-risk youth, the diversity of mentoring forms and strategies, existing scientific literature regarding referral specific issues and evidence-based outcomes for delinquency prevention and reduction . . .