Juvenile & Criminal Justice
Adolescent Mentoring Program
The Foundling’s Adolescent Mentoring Program operates in The Bronx and serves young people ages 12-21 who are involved with or at risk of involvement with the juvenile or criminal justice or foster care systems. Taking a strength-based youth development and leadership approach, the program helps young people develop an individual success plan to guide them and their futures.
The Adolescent Mentoring Program provides structured mentoring and advocacy, tutoring and homework assistance, college preparation support, and life skills training to participants. Program mentors work to keep all participants functioning academically at grade level or above to remain on track to graduate and move on to advanced education or training, as well as helping participants stay out of trouble and behave responsibly. Through individual and group work, mentors get to know the participants’ teachers, peers, and family and make visits home to discuss problems and find solutions.