Dr. Rhodes is the Frank L. Boyden Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has devoted her career to understanding and advancing the role of intergenerational relationships in the intellectual, social, educational, and career development of youth. She has published three books, four edited volumes, and over 100 chapters and peer-reviewed articles on topics related to positive youth development, the transition to adulthood, and mentoring. Dr. Rhodes is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association and the Society for Research and Community Action, and was a Distinguished Fellow of the William T. Grant Foundation. She has been awarded many campus-wide teaching awards for her advances in pedagogy and scholarship, including the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Scholar Award, the Student Government Outstanding Teacher Award, and the Chancellor’s Outstanding Scholar award at UMB.
MENTOR: THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP AND YOUTH SOCIAL NETWORK ROCKET21 ANNOUNCE A NEW CUSTOMIZED ON-LINE PLATFORM TO ENHANCE MENTOR – MENTEE RELATIONSHIPS MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership and youth social network Rocket21, the only social networking platform designed to safely connect kids and teens with communities of professionals and experts representing leading institutions and brands […]
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership is seeking proposals for workshop presentations at the 2014 National Mentoring Summit, taking place on Thursday, January 30 and Friday, January 31 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA. Submit your workshop proposal using the online form by 11:59 EST, July 26, 2013. Here’s your application
Schmid, K.L., Phelps, E., & Lerner, R.M. (2011). Constructing positive futures: Modeling the relationship between adolescents’ hopeful future expectations and intentional self-regulation in predicting positive youth development. Journal of Adolescence, 34, 1127-1135. Background: During adolescence, young people often explore their identities and thinking about pathways into adulthood. Their increasing cognitive and behavioral capacities provide them […]
From UMass Amherst news office “This program has helped me feel less alone as an adopted person. I don’t feel like the only one on campus who is adopted.” That’s the kind of impact that the Adoption Mentoring Partnership (AMP) can have for the undergraduate students who serve as mentors for adopted kids in Amherst […]
Bridging the Research to Practice Gap: Spreading What Works With Mentoring Meghan Duffy, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Posted: June 24, 2013 Topics: Annual conference, Evidence base, Mentoring, scaling strategies Contrary to popular belief (or at least mine), at least half of youth involved in mentoring programs are being served by grassroots programs, and not the big names that come to […]
Editors Note: In this column Gail Manza and Susan Patrick draw from their new book Mentor’s Field Guide, which is framed as a series of 67 answers to the most common questions that arise in youth mentoring. Question #13: I want to connect with other mentors. How do I do that? First, follow your impulse […]
Sometimes a simple anecdote can illustrate a point far better than mounds of research. It was written by Jerome Groopman, M.D., Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, and a public intellectual. In this excerpt, […]
Editors Note: In this column Gail Manza and Susan Patrick draw from their new book Mentor’s Field Guide, which is framed as a series of 67 answers to the most common questions that arise in youth mentoring. Question 35. Because of a geographical move, my mentee and I will not be able to get together. Is […]
NEW VIDEO Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Youth Outcomes: A theory of change. In this 5-minute video, a theory of change for improving outcomes for youth and their families is presented. This was developed by the Frontiers of Innovation community and underscores the importance of building the strengths of parents, teachers, and other caregivers and […]
Most mentoring researchers hold advanced degrees in psychology or social work and could easily be raking in higher salaries as full-time clinicians or consultants. Yet all of us have set our sights on mentoring research. Indeed, even as I studied clinical psychology, and learned to speak the language of psychiatry during intensive years of hospital-based […]
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