The National Mentoring Center at Education Northwest is one of the nation's premier training and technical assistance providers for youth mentoring programs and initiatives. Education Northwest has over 20 years experience providing training, resources, and other services to local mentoring programs and federal, state, and regional agencies.

Whether your program is just getting started or working to build on its current success, the NMC can help you create and implement quality services that meet the needs of youth in your community. We also provide a wide variety of supports to federal, state, and local mentoring initiatives and funding agencies. Please contact our staff via email or 503-275-0135 to learn more about our services.

New Online Resource for Ongoing Mentor Training

Talking it Through: Communication Skills for Mentors - Need help preparing mentors for their complex role? This interactive website, built to enhance ongoing mentor training, presents 13 video stories with real mentors, real youth, and real situations that illustrate common challenges and proven strategies.

This course is offered at no charge. Simply sign-up to get started!

Download Our New "Lessons Learned" on School-Based Mentoring

Education Northwest has just released the latest issue in our
Lessons Learned series, this time focusing on key aspects of planning a school-based mentoring (SBM) program. These lessons are drawn from the NMC's extensive experience providing training and technical assistance to SBM programs, and will be valuable to any mentoring program operating in a school setting.

• Lessons Learned: Planning a School-Based Mentoring Program

Visit the Mentoring Forums Site

The NMC recently launched the Mentoring Forums, a website where youth mentoring professionals from all over the United States, Canada, and the rest of the world can share innovative program practices and tips on the art of mentoring. This is a place to ask questions of your peers, to disseminate the wisdom gained in working with today’s young people, and to engage in the conversations that will help shape the future of the youth mentoring movement.

The Mentoring Forums are free to join. Mentoring and youth development professionals, researchers and evaluators, funding agencies, and even mentors themselves are all encouraged to join the conversation.

So sign up today and join the conversation!