The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of mentoring program helping the mental and
social adaptation of youth runaways is empirically verified. It ought to be of special interest at the
present moment when the concerns about the mentoring program are growing. With this purpose, the
mentoring program has been implemented into the youth runaways who were put into the two different
youth-shelters. Different-regulation groups have been comprised of the eight youth runaways from
experimental group and the ones from regulation group. To observe the effects of the mentoring program
for youth runaways based on the pretest- and posttest design of different-regulation groups, self-efficacy,
self-adaptability, social-support are analyzed by using t-test methodology with SPSS 14.0 program for
windows The major findings if this study can be summarized as follows: It was observed that the
mentoring program affects the self-regulated efficacy and the project-level in self efficacy, and the
concentration and confidence in self-adaptability, respectively. In addition, it contributes the family-support
and friend-support in social-support. Thus, this mentoring program can be utilized to help the mental and
social adaptation of youth runaways with various characteristics.