Entries by Jean Rhodes

MENTOR and Center highlighted at Social Impact Exchange Conference

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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 […]

Mentors connecting with mentors

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  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 […]

New research (and a story) about teachers

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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, […]

Mentor Corner: Continuity across the miles

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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 […]

Why we study: Confessions of a mentoring researcher

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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 […]

Video games: An Interesting New Outlet for Mentoring

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Games for the 50+: A New Outlet for Mentoring May 13, 2013 by Bob Stephen (posted in AARP) Wizard 101 by Kingsisle helps older players mentor younger ones. Over the past few weeks, I’ve written about the gaming study by Dr. Jennifer Jacobs Henderson, associate professor and department chair, and Dr. Aaron Delwiche, associate professor, of the Department […]

BBBS Ireland releases evaluation results

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Summary of key findings [In this evaluation],  (from report) standardised survey measures were used to assess outcomes at 4 time points, or waves, over a 2-year period for intervention and control groups. The outcomes assessed related to 4 dimensions – emotional and mental well-being, education, risk and problem behaviour, and relationships and social support. Youth […]

Child Trend releases new report on “What works for mentoring”

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by: Elizabeth Lawner and Martha Beltz, with Kristin Moore. Executive Summary (from report) Child Trends conducted a synthesis of experimental evaluations of 19 mentoring programs for children and youth, including Big Brothers Big Sisters, to determine how frequently these programs work to improve such outcomes as education, mental health, peer and parent relationships, and behavior problems, and what […]