Insights into the state of mentoring in Georgia
Georgia’s mentoring landscape
Released in June 2025, the MENTOR Georgia Landscape Study provides updated analysis of mentoring programs and their needs across the state. In this report, we highlight key strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improvement – both in the delivery of services to youth mentoring programs and in how MENTOR Georgia can better support more and better quality opportunities for young people to develop supportive relationships.
This report was written from survey collection that ended in early 2024, and it updates an earlier landscape analysis – released in 2017 – that was foundational to the launch of MENTOR Georgia several years later.
Among the survey findings, the MENTOR Georgia Landscape study was able to update our shared understanding of the challenges faced by youth mentoring programs around the state. Unsurprisingly, funding was reported as the greatest challenge, followed by mentor recruitment.
Attracting and retaining volunteers is a greater challenge now than it was prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving programs asking how to better attract and keep the volunteer mentors needed to operate programs, or otherwise looking at different service models like paid mentors and group mentoring.
Read more insights by downloading the report. We’d love to hear from you about your reaction to the findings and what comes next! Email lhale@uga.edu.