National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program
DMT Helps the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program Change Young People’s Lives
DMT provides national-level training and technical assistance to the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program and has been a partner to the program for almost two decades. DMT was initially engaged in 1993 to design the program’s mentoring model and mentorship training. Mentoring is the linchpin strategy for transitioning ChalleNGe graduates into successful long-term placement—in higher education, a career, or military service. In that time, some of the outcomes we’ve helped the program achieve include:
- Enhanced staff retention and youth placement rates
- Mentoring program honored with two national awards
- Mentoring program boosted youth placement outcomes by 50%
- When staff is trained at recommended levels, program sites exceed graduation targets and yield a positive return on the federal and state government investment in program operations