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Are children of prisoners less likely to commit crimes if helped by mentors?
Can mentoring teens in the workplace help build career paths?
Do boys work better with male or female mentors?
Does tutoring in school work the same as mentoring?
Do girls work better with female or male mentors?
Do mentoring programs provide safe learning environments for gay and lesbian youth?
Effective Web 2.0 strategies to support youth mentoring programs
E-mentoring: The benefits of using online tools to mentor teens
How to recognize and retain mentors in your youth mentoring program
Reflections: Imagining a world without mentors

These issues and others important to the field of youth mentoring can now be debated live at MENTOR's partner page on Helium.

MENTOR has partnered with Helium, the leader in citizen journalism. This partnership provides mentoring practitioners, mentors, researchers and those interested in mentoring with an open and fair environment to discuss and debate the issues most important to the field of mentoring.

Helium has a community of more than 100,000 writers who submit articles and original reporting, rank each other's articles, and donate their article earnings to a Helium charity partner. Every article at is rated for quality through a simple yet effective peer-rating process which pushes the best content to the top.

Visit our profile on Helium to read ranked articles by the thousand of writers. To contribute, you have to join Helium, which is free and open to everyone.