Making eXtreme Counselors (MXC) is a statewide 4-H camp counselor training workshop. This training brings teens throughout Ohio together to help prepare them to serve as camp counselors in their own counties. Specific competencies are targeted each year on a rotational basis. The training allows youths to learn not only from a variety of 4-H…

The mentoring experiences of two pairs of participants, mentor and mentee, were asked to describe their mentoring relationship. The mentors were more experienced school counselors with more than five years of school counseling experience. The mentees were school counselors in their second year, who do not have teaching experience and were enrolled…

The Miami Valley Tech Prep Consortium, headquartered at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, engages a wide range of students in Tech Prep pathways that span high school and college. Students are offered a blend of technical and academic coursework, as well as extensive supports enhanced by a sophisticated professional development system.…

This report presents a case study of programs that provide either formal or informal training for economically disadvantaged youth from fourteen to twenty-one years of age at six community action agencies in the state of Ohio. The following programs involving the six agencies were examined: inschool public sector programs funded by the…