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Funding for Mentoring Programs
Save Federal Funding for Mentoring
Federal Funding Sustains and Helps to Expand Quality Programs
Legislative Goal:
To ensure Congress to includes funding for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Youth Mentoring Grants program.
President Obama signed the FY2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill that included $90 million request for the Youth Mentoring Grants Program. As Congress debates fy 2014 spending, we are requesting $100 million for this program which distributes critical funding to local, regional and national mentoring programs through a fair, open, transparent and competitive process.
Not only is mentoring an effective investment in a young person’s development, quality mentoring programs are also a smart financial investment in our nation’s future with a 3:1 return on investment dollars that help us grow a vibrant future workforce that allows us to better compete globally.
A coalition of leaders from national youth mentoring organizations as well as mentoring champions in the U.S. House of Representatives support this request for $100 million to be included in the federal fiscal year 2014 budget for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Youth Mentoring Grants program.