Program areas at MMP
Advocacy for field resources - in collaboration with our network of youth Mentoring programs, we secured funding for The Mentoring matching grants program in The Massachusetts state budget at $1,500,000, which is used to increase The number of high-quality Mentoring matches through grants to public and private agencies. Mmp conducts a competitive rfp process among The state's Mentoring programs and administers and distributes The mentror matching grant funds.
Training & strategic services - mmp provides training and technical assistance to build Mentoring programs and other youth serving organizations' capacity to build high quality, high impact empowering relationships with The youth they serve. Our training and technical assistance addresses issues of organizational policies, procedures and operations and programmatic development and implementation. Services are provided for large collaborative groups as well as individualized services for organizations. All trainings and technical assistance is designed to increase knowledge, skills, and to develop The attitudes and framework to connect with youth in meaningful ways.
Americorps Mentoring advocates - The americorps Mentoring advocates program places service members at Mentoring programs and youth-serving organizations statewide to strengthen and improve programs, allowing them to serve more youth and ultimately contributing to a more effective Mentoring field. The americorps Mentoring advocates program enables mmp to place americorps members to build their human capital and resources to support and develop organizational capacity, resilience, and directly contributing to improved outcomes for The youth served.
Public awereness & marketing - mmp drives increased resources to The Mentoring field from The public and private sectors by raising awareness of Mentoring as a youth development strategy that can help address social problems such as educational attainment and college readiness, workforce readiness,youth violence, and breaking The school to prison pipeline.