Governor Andrew Cuomo is launching the New York Youth Mentoring Program, which will provide career and life guidance to ask-risk children across the state.

The program will identify, train and match hundreds of business-based mentors with students in some of New York's most challenging elementary and middle schools.

Cuomo says his father, the late Governor Mario Cuomo created the nation's first school-based one-to-one mentoring program in 1987.   The governor's mother, Maltida Raffa Cuomo, will now chair the program's advisory board.

Cuomo has also established a youth mentoring website.

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