1 E-mentoring as aftercare?

I was impressed by this project http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialcare/story/0,,2192278,00.html When I worked as an education social worker, it always seemed to take ages to get support to children whose troubled behaviour was rapidly moving them into harms way. Too often, by the time they were offered support, it was too late and they were already locked into serious anti-social behaviour. Forgive me, but I doubt the claim here that after this intervention, only 6% of these little lovelies ever get into bother again. I can well believe that they fall back to a lower level of troubled behaviour, and maybe for a good while. However, I was wondering if anyone has ever considered the use of e-mentoring as a mechanism for delivering aftercare to these young people following a successful intervention. With a system of long-term mentoring support maybe the minimal aim of keeping out of serious trouble could be developed into constructing a positive future.