New mentor class graduates
Nine new mentors finished training and will each be matched with a young person this month.
Example data Second Chances & Community Neglectedness 9/10 · Highly neglected (example)
Example: Youth Restorative Circles
Mentors and community circles that give young people an alternative to court after a first offense.
The story
The program began when a retired juvenile court clerk started inviting local teenagers and the people they had wronged to sit down together. The results were so good that the county asked her to make it permanent.
Mentors are community members who complete forty hours of training and commit to a year with one young person.
The team
- Adaeze Nwosu · Program director
- Gil Moretti · Lead mentor
- Tamsin Reyes · Circle facilitator
- Judge (ret.) Alan Pryce · Board advisor
Example team (fictional people, for illustration only).
Efficiency rating
B Source: Example data - not sourced, as of
88¢ of every $1 reaches the work
- Reaches the work: 88¢
- Overhead: 7¢
- Advertising: 3¢
- Executive pay: 2¢
- Reaches the work: 88¢
- Overhead: 7¢
- Advertising: 3¢
- Executive pay: 2¢
Show data table
| Category | Cents per $1 |
|---|---|
| Reaches the work | 88 |
| Overhead | 7 |
| Advertising | 3 |
| Executive pay | 2 |
How the work budget is spent (example data)
- Direct care and delivery
- 60%
- Supplies
- 22%
- Coordination
- 18%
- Monthly donors
- 41
- Cost per young person per month
- $120
- Location
- Example Shore
About this project
A fictional program that pairs young people with a trained mentor and brings together those affected by a first offense to agree on how to make things right. Placeholder text for layout and illustration only.
Impact / Why it matters
A mentor and a chance to repair harm can keep a young person out of the justice system and on track.
A first brush with the justice system can follow a young person for years, shaping school, work and housing. Many of these cases are minor and could be handled outside court.
In a restorative circle, the young person, the person affected and a few community members talk it through and agree on a plan. A mentor then checks in weekly to help them follow through.
Monthly gifts keep a mentor in place for the whole year, which matters because trust takes time to build.
Project updates
Example updates: fictional news for illustration. Newest first.
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County referral agreement renewed
The county agreed to keep referring first-offense cases to the program for another year.
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First-year results shared
Most participants completed their agreements, and none had a new case within six months.
Example data. This project and its figures are fictional placeholders. See the methodology for how real ratings will be sourced.