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…Corner series. Beginning in the early 1990’s, the articles were posted on mentoring.org with the goal of summarizing peer-reviewed articles as they pertained to a range of topics. Ethical Principles for Youth Mentoring Relationships (PDF), Research Corner. Author: Jean Rhodes, February 2011. Natural Mentors (PDF), Research Corner. Author: Jean Rhodes, February 2005. Making Mentoring Work (PDF), Research Corner. Author: Jean Rhodes, July 2002. Kee…
…tion, including more advantaged youths. Specifically, the role of informal mentoring – or naturally occurring mentoring – has been very understudied in both of these populations. Thus, Erickson, McDonald, and Elder examine the question of whether informal mentoring acts as either a compensatory resource that helps disadvantaged youths “catch up” to their more privileged peers or if it increases the gap between the two by complementing the lives of…
…than girls without a mentor. “This ground-breaking research confirms that mentoring changes the trajectory of young lives,” says Bruce MacDonald, president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada (BBBSC). “The findings will have a profoundly beneficial impact on our mentoring programs.” The study was conducted by a team of academics led by Dr. David DeWit, a senior research scientist CAMH in London, Ontario, and Dr. Ellen Lipman, a psychiat…
…about online mentoring, there is a good overview on the MENTOR website at mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_1316.pdf. Or visit imentor.org. Finally, if you are concerned that your mentee has fallen into the “technology gap” that affects many young people living in tough circumstances, see Question 39a. DATA POINT: Children and Internet Access The U.S. Census Bureau stopped tracking computer use at home by children because the availability of home…
…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) program that is currently implemented in by Boy With A Ball (under the name Velocity) at Harlandale High School (see http://www.boywithaball.com/news-velocity.html). Dr. Karcher also has helped Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to strengthen their High…
…we work with don’t really have to communicate with anyone who is not their peer – and to speak to the head of a company, for example, is completely alien. They might think: ‘What do I have to say? Why should anyone listen to me?’ So exploring what people are interested in and having something to say in those kinds of situations can be very empowering.” In the six months since its launch, more than 500 women from journalism, law, finance and engine…
…ity of an iatrogenic effect. The difficulty, of course, is that reduced contact with lower-risk adolescents may also reduce the benefit of group activities for higher-risk youth. More generally, these findings underscore the need to consider the context in which mentoring occurs and to structure those contexts in ways that build on the positive peer-modeling functions while minimizing the negative functions. The key, however, is to provide a high…
…s City, which was small, and because of its size, there was easy access to mentoring opportunities. I don’t know if that is the same anymore. In today’s era, we have to think about how to use technology to make mentoring opportunities more accessible both to those who want to mentor and to youth who need mentors. We have to complexify our definition of mentorship so that it is not all about ‘big brother/little sister.’ How clear do we make the pro…
…ss healthy relationships peer pressure abuse prevention future orientation Mentoring: The mentoring component of the FHF program consisted of 30 weeks of one-on-one mentoring (2-4 hours/week). Mentors were graduate students who were studying social work. The mentors received weekly individual and group supervision, as well as a weekly didactic seminar. The mentoring support was designed to help mentors: create empowering relationships with childre…
…ct over 10% of children in the U.S., depression has not been the target of mentoring interventions. These findings suggest that mentoring may help reduce such symptoms–an important, yet unheralded contribution. I also found it interesting that, in the Mentoring At-Risk Youth study, what appeared to matter most to the mentors themselves was whether they were making a difference. Indeed, the two most common reasons for leaving the program cited by m…
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