Holy Names University Early Admit Program

04/08/2014

Young people also believe mentoring provides them with the support and guidance they need to lead productive lives.

04/08/2014

Nationwide, that means today approximately 16 million youth, including nine million at-risk youth, will reach age 19 without ever having a mentor.

03/25/2014

One in three youth do not have a mentor.

03/20/2014

Young people who had mentors report setting higher educational goals and are more likely to attend college than those without mentors.

03/20/2014

Young adults who had mentors, particularly those at-risk, are more likely to report engaging in productive and beneficial activities than youth without a mentor.

03/20/2014

The more risk factors a youth has, the more likely they are to say they wished they had a mentor.

03/07/2014

03/06/2014

More than three quarters (76 percent) of at-risk young adults who had a mentor aspire to enroll in and graduate from college versus half (56 percent) of at-risk young adults who had no mentor.

03/06/2014

Governments, businesses, nonprofits, and young people endorse and value mentoring as an important asset in a young person’s life. Yet in America, nearly nine million at-risk youth do not have access to a mentoring relationship.

03/06/2014

The longer the mentoring relationship lasts, the greater the value for youth.