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Practice Corner - Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

Practice Corner

As CEO of an organization working to fuel the movement of quality mentoring in Massachusetts, our team comes across mentoring programs implementing new and innovative ways to strengthen mentoring relationships and their program all the time. These efforts are critical in ensuring that mentoring doesn’t just look and feel good but produces measurable outcomes on […]

Child-Focused Prevention Corner - Timothy Cavell - Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

Child-Focused Prevention Corner – Timothy Cavell

Timothy A. Cavell, PhD, professor and director of clinical training, Department of Psychological Science, University of Arkansas. His work focuses on mentor-based interventions for children who are highly aggressive or chronically bullied. Recent work has focused on the integration of youth mentoring and prevention science and, more specifically, on lunchtime school-based mentoring as intervention for […]

K-12 Corner - Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

K-12 Corner

Michael J. Karcher, Ed.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Counseling in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he coordinates the School Counseling Training Program. He conducts research on school-based and cross-age peer mentoring as well as on adolescent connectedness and pair counseling. He authored the Cross-age Mentoring Program (CAMP) […]

Child Protection Improvements Act: A Much-Needed Safety Net - The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

A Much Needed Safety Net

Programs that serve our nation’s children strike deep emotional chords and often attract powerful constituents. Since many administrators and policy makers are working under the tacit assumption that youth development programs are universally beneficial to youth (an assumption that has been countered in the research literature), they often put their donations into launching new initiatives […]

How mentors can help youth build satisfying, fulfilling lives - Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

Path Finders: How mentors can help youth build satisfying, fulfilling lives

“Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life” – Confucius “It’s not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether or not our work fulfills us.” Malcom Gladwell As these quotes imply, the path to a happy, fulfilling life has […]