You are now viewing 1 - 10 of 32 results
February 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1998 to 2002, project staff at the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a national media campaign—the Harvard Mentoring Project—to recruit large numbers of qualified mentors to build supportive relationships with at-risk youth.
June 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
The California Mentor Foundation worked to hire additional staff and build its communications and research capabilities.
August 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
For 18 months beginning in mid-2000, Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, tested the feasibility of evaluating a Portland, Ore.-based mentoring program for high-risk children, called Friends of the Children.
December 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The National Mentoring Partnership Incorporated developed and implemented a project designed to discourage high-risk urban youth from engaging in health-damaging behavior and to encourage them to pursue activities geared toward a productive future.
July 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Starting in January 1997, the National Council on the Aging, Washington, implemented the first initiative in the country to match older adults with young people in a pregnancy prevention project.
March 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Minority Health Professions Foundation sponsored the 19th Annual Symposium on Career Opportunities in Biomedical Sciences for minority high school and college students.
July 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
From 1997 to 2000, the Research Foundation of the State University of New York (SUNY), Albany, created a computer-based distance-learning program designed to train clinical preceptors who work with student nurse midwives.
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.
January 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
Experience Corps engages older volunteers to tutor - with a focus on reading - and mentor low-income kindergarten through third-grade students. It expanded and became an independent nonprofit organization.
October 13, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has funded youth development programs since the early 1990s. Since that time it has funded two national programs with positive youth development elements.