Questscope has worked for over thirty years in youth empowerment, implementing role-based mentoring programs designed to support vulnerable youth.
Youth vulnerable to exclusion, alienation, isolation, and exploitation can become anti-social and violent risk- takers. These outcomes ensue from a lack of belonging to communities in which adults build supportive relationships to safeguard them, help them successfully navigate an indifferent/hostile educational system, and ensure that the juvenile justice system provides fair and equitable responses to their issues.
Questscopes Mentoring Program targets at-risk youth and aims to develop pro-social behavior, support positive adult-youth relationships, and increase youths’ engagement in their communities. It empowers youth – who were previously at-risk of moving towards the role of delinquent – to become contributors, problem-solvers, and decision-makers.
Through allowing youth to develop relationships with adults in their own way, as well as reconstructing the ecosystem around each child, young people are better equipped to make positive choices and be productive members of their communities, with outcomes including reduced recidivism to violent or criminal behavior.
The Syrian Society for Social Development, our Syrian national partner, provides mentorship, educational opportunities, and health services for 1,500 youth at two detention facilities in Damascus – one for young men and one for young women.
SSSD also implements The Victim Empathy Program to help youth who’ve committed an infraction take responsibility for their crime and understand the impact it creates on themselves and others.
This program is also implemented in community centers with the goal of building awareness around the personal...
Questscope developed one of the largest civic engagement programs in Jordan, training thousands of student volunteers from Jordanian universities to mentor other thousands of young people at risk of juvenile delinquency.
Through these community-supported and transformational relationships, both youth and mentors are changed. Recruiting mentors from universities creates space for university students to become aware of marginalized people, serve their communities, and encourage volunteerism to become part of their culture. Community-based...
Our programs
Economic Inclusion
Helping the most marginalized and vulnerable participate in economic life.
Trauma Recovery
Our trauma recovery programs work to combat the negative stigmas of mental health struggles and help people on...
Questscope in Za'atari
Since 2011, some 6.5 million Syrian refugees have been forced to flee their country and seek refuge in...
Juvenile Justice
Questscope has worked for over thirty years in youth empowerment, implementing role-based mentoring programs...
Education
An important growth area for Questscope is refugee mental health, as there are few resources to assist the 65
Mentorship
Questscope’s mentorship program matches a caring adult with an at-risk young person, designed with the simple...
Health & Well-Being
An important growth area for Questscope is refugee mental health, as there are few resources to assist the 65
Emergency Aid
The conflict in Syria has fueled one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time. Half of all Syrians have...
Entrepreneurship
The vision of Questscope is to walk alongside people who live in risk, to include them in articulating how...
Education
An important growth area for Questscope is refugee mental health, as there are few resources to assist the 65
Mentorship
Questscope’s mentorship program matches a caring adult with an at-risk young person, designed with the simple...
Health & Well-Being
An important growth area for Questscope is refugee mental health, as there are few resources to assist the 65
Health & Well-Being
An important growth area for Questscope is refugee mental health, as there are few resources to assist the 65