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Urban Youth in Partnership with Knight Foundation and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey Launches the Urban Youth Lessons Learned E-Mentoring Guide For African American Men and Boys
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his guide affords program developers and implementation-level staff an opportunity to be mindful of key considerations in integrating technology-influenced mentoring initiatives into an existing mentoring program or other program serving at-risk youth, particularly for African American males. What It Takes (WIT) founders and e-mentoring program staff engaged in a number of processes to develop, operate, and improve the WIT e-mentoring initiative as a complimentary effort to the stand-alone WIT symposiums, thereby more effectively serving its target audience. These processes in the following discussions frame the key lessons learned about e-mentoring implementation with African-American men and boys:
- The Power of Partnerships
- Program Rationale: Innovations for Serving African American Boys Well
- Program Planning
- Selecting and Operating an E-Mentoring Platform
- Recruiting, Training, and Engaging Youth
- Recruiting, Training, and Engaging Mentors
- Implementing E-mentoring
- Measuring Progress and Sharing Results
