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by Adar Ben-Eliyahu, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Haifa
How do we know that mentoring works? How do we know that a child would not have improved anyways? The … Read the rest
Editor’s Note: Through a series of posts, we present, “Making the Most of Youth Mentoring: A Guide for Funders” In this post, Dr. Carla Herrera surveys different approaches to mentoring, highlighting the positive indicators and red flags Original Publisher(s): Public/Private
By Bernadette Sanchez, Ph.D.
Not too long ago, my colleagues and I created a mentoring program, called GirlPOWER!, for African American and Latina early adolescent girls. Our goal was to ensure that the program was gender specific as well as … Read the rest
by Michael Garringer (originally published on the NMRC blog)
The last year has seen an increasingly bright spotlight shined on one of the nation’s most damaging and pernicious challenges: the struggle of many communities and individual citizens with opioid addiction. … Read the rest
Written by Timothy A. Cavell, PhD
Professor
J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences
Department of Psychological Science
University of Arkansas
Three years ago, I had the good fortune of being in Boston for a symposium on mentoring research … Read the rest
By Adar Ben-Eliyahu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at University of Haifa
Peer review refers to a process used for evaluating published academic work, grant proposals, etc. You may think of this process as similar to that of a teacher looking over … Read the rest
Editor’s note: I stumbled across this impressive study and, more generally, the work of rising star, Sherelle Ferguson. Sherelle is a doctoral student in the sociology dept. at the University of Pennsylvania where she has been studying mentoring, social class, … Read the rest
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by Timothy Cavell
In the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring (DuBois & Karcher, 2013), Chris Elledge and I (Cavell & Elledge, 2013) offered this definition of youth … Read the rest
by Niobe Way, Ed.D., Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology at NYU and Author of Deep Secrets
Matching boys with caring mentors should be the goal of any mentoring program regardless of the sex of the mentor. My research with Black, … Read the rest
By Patrick T. McCarthy (reposted W.T. Grant Foundation)
Our supply of evidence about What Works, though still too small, is beginning to grow. I want to focus here on how we use evidence—how we put it to work … Read the rest
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