The National Mentoring Resource Center creates research reports about youth mentoring programs to help people understand what works best. They review three main areas: different types of mentoring programs and which young people they help most, how well specific mentoring programs work based on careful studies, and the best ways to run mentoring programs like training volunteers. Their reviews look at mentoring for different groups of youth, such as kids with disabilities or immigrant youth, and different mentoring styles like group mentoring or online mentoring.
These research summaries help community organizations, schools, and policymakers choose the most effective mentoring programs and understand how to make them work better. The reviews are based on rigorous scientific studies and provide evidence about which mentoring approaches produce the best results for young people.