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Encourage relationship building between youth & adults with these 10 youth-inspired changes to your organization’s environment
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By Bernadette Sánchez, Tené Gray, and Elsa Rodriguez
We…

Why relationships matter
In "The Heart Grows Smarter," David Brooks discussed the…

Why we need to pressure Congress to pass the Child Protection Improvements Act
A volunteer mentor from Odessa, Texas was arrested in July for…

New, Exciting…and Effective? Tips on Evaluating Innovative and New Programming
Organizations are evolving rapidly within the mentoring field…

Teaching Students to Recruit Academic and Career Mentors: Preliminary Results from a Pilot Intervention
by Sarah Schwartz, Ph.D.
As we have written about before…

A response to the critique of the Brookings Institute report on mentoring
by Phillip Levine, Ph.D.
I am grateful for the attention…

We are overmedicating America’s poorest kids
Editor's note: Nancy Rappaport, MD a colleague who has devoted…

What is person-centered analysis?
Within quantitative research, most analyses can be grouped…

Professors Are Prejudiced, Too
A recent study, conducted by Katherine Milkman and her colleagues,…

Psychological growth in the aftermath of trauma
by Jean Rhodes
The marathon bombing occurred one year…

Strengthening Adult Capacities to Improve Child Outcomes
by Jack P. Shonkoff, Harvard University, From SpotlightonPoverty.org
Achieving…

College admissions and the “rich, inexpressible joy” of mentoring
by Jean Rhodes
In Jon Katz’s book Geeks, he chronicles the…

Changes to Key Numbers in “The Mentoring Effect” Report
by David DuBois
This report as originally issued (Bruce &…

Everyone needs a beta! Mentoring relationships in the fan fiction community
by Sarah Schwartz
As a part of the MacArthur Research Network…

Do mentoring pairs tend to meet less as their matches progress? : Evidence from an Irish study
by Bernadine Brady & Pat Dolan
Editors Note: We…

