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What are the benefits of being a peer mentor for Black and Hispanic high school students?

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…10.3390/youth3020034 Summarized by Ariel Ervin Notes of Interest: Although peer mentoring programs demonstrate how they benefit high school students, it’s unclear how they benefit mentors. This study explored Black and Hispanic mentors’ experiences and perceived benefits of peer mentoring. Three themes arose from the findings: Leadership abilities – Strengthened mentors’ leadership skills and confidence; provided them an opportunity to recognize t…

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Training young people to be peer leaders and educators is powerful

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…d “Peer Leadership Preventing Tobacco Use.” In addition to educating their peers, peer leaders take the form of advocates, event planners, campaigners and spokespeople. To be effective, peer leaders are diverse and representative of a cross-section of young people who bring different skills, talents and levels of healthy behavior. A peer leadership model can be implemented with elementary-, middle- and high school-aged students. Peer-to-peer educa…

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New study explores how peer mentoring enhances students’ career goals

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…capital youths receive from their parents. This study assesses the extent peer or near-peer social capital help emerging adults of color with pursuing and achieving their educational & career-related goals. It also explores how peer or near-peer social capital affected emerging adults’ commitment to pay it forward and have the collective efficacy to change systems. Peer social capital indirectly correlated with greater self-initiated social capit…

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What are mentor & mentee perceptions of student-led peer mentoring? New study has answers

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…3611267.2022.2030187 Summarized by Ariel Ervin Notes of Interest: Although peer mentoring is mutually beneficial for mentors and mentees, many studies assess structured versions of this relationship where faculty or staff members are involved. This overlooks the potential peer-initiated and peer-led mentoring relationships have on relationship experiences and outcomes. This study assesses mentor and mentee perceptions of the student-led peer mento…

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The ABC of peer mentoring – what secondary students have to say about cross-age peer mentoring

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…BC of peer mentoring – what secondary students have to say about cross-age peer mentoring in a regional Australian school, Educational Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, 18 (2), 173-185. Cross-age peer mentoring Problem: Cross-age peer mentoring is a community-based model that utilizes peer relationships in order to promote positive youth development. In order to maintain a greater degree of power imbalance t…

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New meta-analysis assesses cross-age peer mentoring for youth

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…multilevel meta-analytic approach and b) examined potential moderators of peer-mentoring program effectiveness. There’s a medium-sized overall effect size of cross-age peer mentoring programs (g = 0.45). Findings indicated that there were a few traits that moderated effect sizes. Programs in urban areas or out of school environments (operated during the summers, weekends, or in communities) had larger effects. There were also bigger effects for p…

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Expert David DuBois Describes the Promise of Mentoring Programs for Delinquency Prevention

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…to make them “credible messengers.” For example, the Arches Transformative Mentoring Program, a group mentoring program that seeks to reduce recidivism among youth on probation in New York City, often uses mentors who have been formerly involved in the justice system, are from the same neighborhood as participants, and have been recipients of similar types of programs or services. A quasi-experimental evaluation of the program found statistically…

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Profiles in Mentoring: A Conversation with Dr. Heidrun Stoeger on Online Mentoring for Girls in STEM, the ‘Mentoring Paradox’ and the need for Ongoing Program Evaluations

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…w-study-addresses-the-mentoring-paradox/ https://www.evidencebasedmentoring.org/how-various-online-mentoring-formats-affect-stem-related-outcomes-for-girls/ https://www.evidencebasedmentoring.org/mentoring-preventative-effect-losing-interest-stem-fields-without-mentoring-girls-cybermentor-program-lost-interest-stem/  …

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New study explores the role peer contagion has in group mentoring outcomes

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…entoring. This study examined whether a history of negative behavior among peers in mentoring groups exacerbated individual participants’ behavior problems. Using a sample of 239 ninth grade participants in a group mentoring program, multilevel regression assessed group-level influence on suspensions and truancy using school administrative data records. The association between exposure to peers with a history of problem behaviors and outcomes did…

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Latino/as’ perception of peer: Mentors as social capital

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…(Reprinted from the Abstract) An evaluation was conducted on a university peer mentoring program for Latina/o college students (mostly freshmen and first generation) at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Data were collected across 3 years from 458 Latina/o students with mentors and 86 Latina/o students without mentors (Year 3). Quantitative and qualitative data indicated mentees viewed peer mentors as social capital (e.g., emotional and academic sup…