---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 681.490"
title: "20"
number: "681.490"
heading: "What is adult mentoring?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/681.490"
---

# §681.490. What is adult mentoring?

- (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.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 107, 121, 123, 129, 189, 503, Pub. L. 113-128, 128 Stat. 1425 (Jul. 22, 2014).

### Source

Source: 81 FR 56398, Aug. 19, 2016, unless otherwise noted.