New Guidelines Show How to Youth Participatory Action Research into Your Mentoring Program

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MENTOR has developed a new resource guide, helping programs integrate youth voices into making programmatic changes.

The guide explores YPAR is as an approach to implement within mentoring contexts which offers a wide array of benefits like:

  • Promoting positive change within youth programs and communities
  • Building youth skills and guiding what mentors and youth do together
  • Positively impacting youth and adult participants (e.g. enhancing trust-building in mentoring relationships, supporting youth’s interest in issues that are important to them)
  • Supporting evaluation of the mentoring program itself

Find their guide here