Corporation for National and Community Service programs mentored about 400,000 children and youth last year. But many more children could benefit from this invaluable service. To respond to this need, the Corporation is leading a new Federal Mentoring Council, and is collaborating with MENTOR, and leaders from government, nonprofit, and corporate America to ensure that a caring adult mentor is matched to every child who needs one.

To read the full press release about the Corporation's role in a new national mentoring campaign, and to read the latest research on mentoring, including:

• Volunteers Mentoring Youth: Implications for Closing the Mentoring Gap, a new report from the Corporation
• The National Agenda for Action: How to Close America's Mentoring Gap, by MENTOR
• Mentoring in America 2005: A Snapshot of the Current State of Mentoring, by MENTOR

Mentoring Support at The Resource Center
Find great resources to start or support your mentoring program! Visit the Effective Practices Collection: Mentoring for over 75 helpful ideas related to mentoring. Check out the following mentoring-related titles available from The Resource Center lending library.

• Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development
  (or PDF for immediate download)
• Promise and Challenge of Mentoring High-Risk Youth: Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative
  PDF for immediate download
• Stand by Me: The Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth
• Group Mentoring: A Study of Mentoring Groups in Three Programs