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Lunch buddy mentoring program: A successful approach to working with aggressive children

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…hly structured mentoring program and, as a control condition, to a limited lunch buddy mentoring program that offered minimal training to mentors and changed children’s mentors for each of three semesters. While lunch buddy children considered their mentors as less supportive than children in the highly structured program, the authors were surprised to find that lunch buddy children showed greater gains. Summary The authors further explored their…

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Groundbreaking study is a cautionary tale for group mentoring programs

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…rvention that used mentoring to decrease risks of arrests and crime is the Buddy System (Hawai’i). In the Buddy System, which was launched 35 years ago, high-risk youth were matched with an adult. The results were complex; for those youth who had been arrested in the year before the intervention, the Buddy System significantly decreased subsequent arrest rates. However, for those youth who had not been arrested in the year before the intervention,…

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Profiles in Mentoring: Timothy Cavell on mentoring aggressive children, chronically bullied children, and next steps for the field

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…e is no longer at my university, but I’m still researching the benefits of Lunch Buddy mentoring as selective prevention for children who are chronically bulled at school.   The Chronicle: Where, in your opinion, do you see the next “big thing” in mentoring? Timothy Cavell: Great question. Those who follow the CEBM will know that Jean Rhodes and I have had some energetic exchanges related to this question. For years, I complained about Jean’s omni…

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What is Your Evidence-Based Mentoring IQ? The Winner is…

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…%20for%20bullied%20children-%20a%20preliminary%20test.pdf “Children in the Lunch Buddy program (n = 12) were paired with a college student mentor who visited twice each week during the spring semester of an academic year. Also participating were 24 matched-control children; 12 were from the same school as Lunch Buddy children (“Same” controls) and 12 were from a school different from that of Lunch Buddy children (“Different” controls). Results ind…

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Do You Love Lunch?: How these feelings associate with students sense of belonging in school

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…ing up feelings of anxiety. This study focuses on students’ feelings about lunchtime (including lunchtime activity preferences) and how these feelings connect to a sense of belonging within the school community. Though lunch can be associated with bullying or anxiety, loving to eat lunch is positively associated with feelings of belonging at school. Overall, students who are either inactive or are in need of friends to talk with during lunch have…

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Prevention Corner: Understanding, designing, and cataloging the full range of mentoring programs

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…nch Buddy mentoring program that I’ve been studying for the past 15 years. Lunch Buddy mentoring is school-based, lunchroom bound, and involves matches that last for one academic semester only. Key to Lunch Buddy mentoring is the supposition that it isn’t the quality of the relationship that matters most; instead, it is the capacity for the mentor to improve mentees’ social interactions and social reputation with lunchroom peers. For that reason,…

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Pulling youth out of class for school-based mentoring might be counter-productive

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…rch to support the efficacy of mentoring during school lunch, such as the “Lunch Buddy” mentoring for bullied children (Ellridge, Cavell, Ogle, & Newgent, 2010). These programs may work, in part, by providing youth with a partner whom other youth admire, helping to redress social difficulties. In light of the small number of programs employing lunch mentoring, the current study did not investigate mentoring during lunch separately from after-schoo…

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New Study Explores The Impact Of Planned Rematching On Youth With Poor First Matches

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…rd graders identified as aggressive. This study looked specifically at the Lunch Buddy mentoring group, comparing those who had poor first matches with those who did not (comparison group). The researchers hypothesized that youth who had poor first matches would have fewer positive rematches compared to the comparison group (those who had more positive first matches). However, there were no hypotheses about differences in post-mentoring outcomes….

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New research observes combination of peer youth mentoring and multimedia

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…room, and teacher facilitated a discussion, allowing for discussion within buddy pairs and sharing with the whole class. Buddy pairs then collaboratively created a poster of their favorite theme (e.g., “treat each other nicely”). Teachers completed a questionnaire about satisfaction with the program and student engagement. Researchers recorded and analyzed conversations between Big and Little Buddies. They coded the conversations for the discussio…

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Should mentors be compensated? Two experts weigh in

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…e. Given SBM can be harmful when mentors are inconsistent (Karcher, 2009), Lunch Buddy mentors enroll in a 3-credit college course. This helps ensure consistency with minimal match support and on-site monitoring. Compensating mentors also makes sense when promoting multi-year matches with challenging youth. For example, Friends of the Children (FotC) has the ambitious goal of mentoring high-risk children over a 12-year span. Mentors have a caseloa…