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20 CFR 681.490: What is adult mentoring?
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 20—Employees' Benefits
- CHAPTER V—EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- PART 681—YOUTH ACTIVITIES UNDER TITLE I OF THE WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT
- Subpart C—Youth Program Design, Elements, and Parameters
(a) Adult mentoring for youth must:
(1) Last at least 12 months and may take place both during the program and following exit from the program;
(2) Be a formal relationship between a youth participant and an adult mentor that includes structured activities where the mentor offers guidance, support, and encouragement to develop the competence and character of the mentee; and
(3) While group mentoring activities and mentoring through electronic means are allowable as part of the mentoring activities, at a minimum, the local youth program must match the youth with an individual mentor with whom the youth interacts on a face-to-face basis.
(b) Mentoring may include workplace mentoring where the local program matches a youth participant with an employer or employee of a company.
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