Entries by Ariel Ervin

What makes an effective college student volunteer mentor?

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Castro, E. M., & Cohen, A. K. (2020). Fostering youth civic engagement through effective mentorship: Understanding the college student volunteer mentors who succeed. Journal of Community Psychology, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22482 Summarized by Ariel Ervin Notes of Interest:  Although college student volunteers can develop positive mentoring relationships with adolescents, there’s still a limited amount of scholarship that addresses […]

The Fear of Speaking Out About Mental Health Is Persistent. We Need to Reach Out to Each Other

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By : Cecile Stone, Reprinted from America’s Promise Alliance This piece is part of “Dear Adult Leaders: #ListenToYouth,” a four-week series produced in collaboration with The 74 to elevate student voices in the national conversation as schools and districts navigate how to educate our country’s youth in a global pandemic. In this series, students write […]

[Webinar] The Eleventh Annual National Mentoring Summit

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Date: January 27 – 29, 2021 The 11th annual National Mentoring Summit will feature researchers, practitioners, and other mentoring professionals involved in the nationwide mentoring movement. This virtual event will feature discussions on building a unified mentoring agenda, improving programs/practices, and establishing mentoring relationships that will promote positive youth development.  Register by December 18, 2020, […]

[Webinar] New Campaign Sneak Preview: #MentoringAmplifies

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Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST MENTOR is having a special webinar tomorrow to announce a new public awareness campaign, in honor of National Mentoring Month.  This specific webinar will cover various aspects of MENTOR’s upcoming campaign, share digital assets & messaging for mentoring programs to utilize, and talk about […]

Developing cultural consciousness of systemic issues through mentoring

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Duron, J. F., Williams‐Butler, A., Schmidt, A. T., & Colon, L. (2020). Mentors’ experiences of mentoring justice-involved adolescents: A narrative of developing cultural consciousness through connection. Journal of Community Psychology, 48(7), 2309–2325. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22415 Summarized by Ariel Ervin Notes of Interest:  Although mentoring is a popular method of engaging with at-risk youth and justice-involved youth, youth mentoring programs still […]

Research-Policymaker COVID-19 Collaboration: Lessons from Boston’s Summer Jobs Program

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By Loretta Goodwin, Reprinted from the American Policy Forum How can research inform policy during a pandemic? In Spring 2020, Alicia Modestino, a professor at Northeastern University, and Midori Morikawa, Director of Business Strategy at the City of Boston, rose to the occasion. Their successful partnership and collaborative relationship helped to save and then expand […]

Bill Seeks ‘Pandemic Funding’ For 21st Century After-school Programs

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Featured Article by Stell Simonton, Youth Today Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Tina Smith recently introduced legislation that requests for an extra $1.2 billion for 21st Century after-school programs. According to Erik Peterson, Afterschool Alliance’s vice president of policy, there’s a chance that this new bill will come in a COVID-19 relief package or as […]

Actions to “Gift” Youth Experiencing Homelessness This Holiday Season

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By Maria Duarte, Reprinted from American Youth Policy Forum Setting the Context Missed Opportunities, a first-of-its-kind report by Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, found that 1 in 10 young adults ages 18-25 experienced a form of homelessness over a 12-month period. Approximately 3.5 million young people are largely invisible to society. Particular subpopulations […]

COVID Virtual Learning Offers Lessons on Promoting Equity in Early Care and Education Settings

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By Manica F. Ramos, Reprinted from Child Trends The COVID-19 pandemic has become, essentially, a large-scale case study in which we are all involved, whether we like it or not. Nowhere is this reality more apparent than in the shift to remote learning, especially when it impacts very young children and families from under-resourced communities […]

New study explores how informal mentors’ motivations affect outcomes

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Liu, Y., Aad, A. A., Maalouf, J., & Hamdan, O. A. (2020). Self- vs. other-focused mentoring motives in informal mentoring: Conceptualizing the impact of motives on mentoring behaviours and beneficial mentoring outcomes. Human Resource Development International, 0(0), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2020.1789401 Summarized by Ariel Ervin Notes of Interest: Mentoring motives affect positive mentoring outcomes, especially within informal mentoring relationships […]