NCJ Number
189330
Date Published
June 1999
Length
147 pages
Annotation
This manual provides instructions for completing the evaluation reporting requirements for the Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP).
Abstract
In 1996, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a grant for the design and implementation of a national evaluation of the JUMP program. As part of their participation in the JUMP program, grant recipients are required to collect general information on project operations. They also need to provide specific information on project effectiveness in reducing juvenile delinquency and gang participation, improving academic performance, and reducing the school dropout rate, and to report that information to OJJDP on a regular basis. The clusters of information needed begin with project narrative information describing the activities planned for that quarter, accomplishments, barriers or other difficulties requiring technical assistance, and activities planned for the next quarter. The next is agency information describing the organization and the mentoring model chosen for implementation. The third form is youth information describing demographic characteristics, academic and juvenile justice histories, and issues or problems with which youth enter the mentoring project. The fourth is youth screening to assess the areas in which youth may be facing particular challenges. The fifth is mentor information describing demographic and motivational characteristics of volunteer mentors. The sixth is match information linking youth with mentors and describing the length of the matches and reasons for match terminations. And finally, required is client feedback or exit information providing a measure of youth and mentors’ perception of benefits received as a result of participation in the mentoring relationship. The remainder of this manual provides specific instructions for preparing quarterly narrative reports and for completing the agency, youth, mentor, match, and exit forms.