Entries by Ariel Ervin

Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Adar Ben-Eliyahu and Limor Goldner

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Distinguished Lecture Series Hosted by the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring The Mentor’s Perspective: Mentoring as a meaningful lifelong experience Featuring:  Adar Ben-Eliyahu Senior Lecturer, Chair of Consortium on Youth/Children in Prolonged Crisis, University of Haifa Limor Goldner Senior Lecturer, Head of the School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa Date: Thursday, May 13, 2021, […]

How to Help Your Adolescent Think About the Last Year

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Hint: It’s not a “lost year.” Also, the screen time with friends? It’s good for their mental health. Featured Article by Judith Warner, The New York Times 2020 was a hard year to get through. With remote learning, unemployment, losses of loved ones, and many other stressors, families have been struggling to juggle all of […]

How Racism Can Affect Child Development

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Reprinted from the Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University  Years of scientific study have shown us that, when children’s stress response systems remain activated at high levels for long periods, it can have a significant wear-and-tear effect on their developing brains and other biological systems. This can have lifelong effects on learning, behavior, and […]

How #BlackTherapistsMatter became a rallying cry for Black mental health

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As the pandemic and social unrest have put a strain on Black Americans’ mental health, Black therapists have united around a hashtag to provide help. By Ruth Reader, Reprinted from Fast Company  The hashtag appeared last summer, shortly after George Floyd’s murder and right in the middle of waves of protests and violent confrontations with […]

Having a Mentor With the Same Disability Is Important, Young People and Research Agree

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Madeline Delp, at an event in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina in 2017, is mentoring a 15-year-old interested in competing in pageants as Delp has. By Lisa A. Goldstein, Reprinted from Youth Today Hannah Weitzman is almost 10 and the only kid with hearing loss in her neighborhood in Chappaqua, New York. When her family still lived […]

Rising Stars and Underdogs: New study explores the role race and parental education in mentoring

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Fruiht, V., Boeder, J., & Chan, T. (2021). Rising Stars and Underdogs: The Role Race and Parental Education Play in Predicting Mentorship. Youth & Society.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X211004637 Summarized by Ariel Ervin Notes of Interest:  Career mentoring research developed the rising star hypothesis, which proposes that youth who achieve individual success (academic & social success) are more […]

Effective Tutoring: Out-of-school Time Providers Need To Know What Works

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Research shows that high-intensity tutoring is the most effective method to help students who have fallen behind. Here, a trained Saga Education tutor works daily in a group of no more than two students and coordinates closely with classroom teachers. By Stell Simonton, Reprinted from Youth Today In the coming months, after-school and summer learning […]

For at-risk teens, the benefits of a caring adult last beyond youth

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By Brett Theodos, Reprinted from the Urban Institute  Youth who are disconnected from school and work may lack social networks that connect them to support and community resources and are vulnerable to negative outcomes as they transition to adulthood. Many efforts have been made to improve the education, employment, and behavioral outcomes of at-risk youth, […]