new study supported by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevent (OJJDPS), U.S. Department of Justice, identifies effective practices and strategies to improve the mentoring experience for at-risk and high-risk youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system (Dubois, 2000). The best practices for referring youth to mentoring when they are in certain juvenile justice system settings, including Juvenile Detention, Juvenile Corrections, Juvenile probation, Delinquency Court, Youth/Teen Court and Dependency Court. As a low-cost delinquency Prevention and intervention option that capitalizes on the resources of local communities and caring individuals, mentoring has emerged as a promising delinquency reduction strategy for at-risk
