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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 983 

Recognizing January 2024 as ‘‘National Mentoring Month’’. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 29, 2024 

Ms. SCANLON (for herself, Mr. BACON, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, Mrs. 

CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. 

MCBATH, Ms. CHU, Mr. ALLRED, Mr. TRONE, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. 

GRIJALVA, Ms. TITUS, Ms. LEE of Nevada, and Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER) 

submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 

on Education and the Workforce 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing January 2024 as ‘‘National Mentoring Month’’. 

Whereas the goals of National Mentoring Month are to raise 

awareness of and celebrate the powerful impact of mentoring relationships, recruit new mentors, and encourage 

institutions to integrate quality mentoring into their policies, practices, and programs; 

Whereas quality mentoring fosters positive life and social 

skills, promotes self-esteem, bolsters academic achievement and college access, supports career exploration, and 

nurtures youth leadership development; 

Whereas mentoring happens in many settings, including community-based programs, elementary and secondary 

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tions, and the workplace, and in various ways, including 

formal mentoring matches and informal relationships 

with teachers, coaches, neighbors, faith leaders, and others; 

Whereas effective mentoring of underserved and vulnerable 

populations helps individuals confront challenges they 

may face, and display improved mental health and socialemotional well-being; 

Whereas studies have shown that incorporating culture and 

heritage into mentoring programs can improve academic 

outcomes and increase community engagement, especially 

for Alaska Native and American Indian youth; 

Whereas mentoring encourages positive youth development 

and smart daily behaviors, such as finishing homework 

and having healthy social interactions, and has a positive 

impact on the growth and success of a young person; 

Whereas mentors help young people set career goals and can 

help connect them to industry professionals to train for 

and find jobs; 

Whereas mentoring programs generally have a significant, 

positive impact on youth academic achievement, school 

connectedness and engagement, and educational success, 

which leads to outcomes such as improved attendance, 

grades and test scores, and classroom behavior; 

Whereas research has found that young people facing risk of 

not completing high school but who had a mentor were, 

compared with their peers, more likely to enroll in college, more likely to participate regularly in sports or extracurricular activities, more likely to hold a leadership 

position in a club or sports team, more likely to volunteer 

regularly, and less likely to start using drugs; 


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Whereas mentoring has long been a staple of juvenile justice 

and violence prevention efforts, and can offer comprehensive support to youth at risk for committing violence or 

victimization, as it can address many risk factors at once; 

Whereas mentoring relationships for youth facing risk, such 

as foster youth, can have a positive impact on a wide 

range of factors, including mental health, educational 

functioning and attainment, peer relationships, employment, and housing stability; 

Whereas mentoring programs have been found to have a 

meaningful positive impact on mental health symptoms 

across a variety of outcomes, including internalizing and 

externalizing mental health symptoms, interpersonal relationships, and reducing stress experienced by their parents; 

Whereas mentoring is an innovative, evidence-based practice 

and, uniquely, is both a prevention and intervention 

strategy that can support young people of all demographics and backgrounds in all aspects of their lives; 

Whereas each of the benefits of mentors described in this preamble serves to link youth to economic and social opportunity while also strengthening communities in the 

United States; 

Whereas, despite those described benefits, one young person 

of every three is growing up without a mentor, which 

means a third of the youth of the United States are 

growing up without someone outside of the home to offer 

real life guidance and support; and 

Whereas this ‘‘mentoring gap’’ demonstrates the need for collaboration between the private, public, and nonprofit sectors to increase resources for relationship-centric supVerDate Sep 11 2014 00:27 Jan 30, 2024 Jkt 049200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR983.IH HR983

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ports for youth in communities, schools, and workplaces; 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) recognizes ‘‘National Mentoring Month’’; 

3 (2) recognizes the caring adults who serve as 

4 staff and volunteers at quality mentoring programs 

5 and help the young people of the United States find 

6 inner strength and reach their full potential; 

7 (3) acknowledges that mentoring is beneficial 

8 because it supports educational achievement, engage9 ment and self-confidence, supports young people in 

10 setting career goals and expanding social capital, re11 duces juvenile delinquency, and strengthens commu12 nities; 

13 (4) promotes the establishment and expansion 

14 of quality mentoring programs across the United 

15 States to equip young people with the tools needed 

16 to lead healthy and productive lives; and 

17 (5) supports initiatives to close the ‘‘mentoring 

18 gap’’ that exists for the many young people in the 

19 United States who do not have meaningful connec20 tions with adults outside the home. 

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