by Jean Rhodes Since 2012, the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring has featured summaries of peer-reviewed journal articles, mentoring news, practice innovations, conversations with experts, and more. Although you might not always have time to read the Chronicle when it lands in your inbox, the articles don’t go away! In fact a repository of our […]
Written by Abigail Ellis, National Mentoring Resource Center As the fourth largest agency in one of the oldest and most respected brands in the youth mentoring business, one might wonder why Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region enthusiastically engaged in a thorough quality assessment of their practices called NQMS or the National Quality Mentoring System. CEO Marcus Allen puts it […]
Written by Maaike Kroes and Iris Kools Rich Greif is the vice president of Marketing, Communications and Community Relations of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay (BBBSMB). He oversees all the volunteer and youth recruitment, as well as all the marketing and branding for the agency. Rich first got involved with mentoring when he […]
Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters is proud to announce that it is one of 16 Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) affiliates selected from across the country to participate in the nationwide “Youth Relationships Study.” This rigorous study will evaluate the benefits that BBBS mentoring relationships provide to participating youth in several key areas, such as […]
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Summary of key findings [In this evaluation], (from report) standardised survey measures were used to assess outcomes at 4 time points, or waves, over a 2-year period for intervention and control groups. The outcomes assessed related to 4 dimensions – emotional and mental well-being, education, risk and problem behaviour, and relationships and social support. Youth […]
by Marc Wheeler & Salem Valentino, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America In these days of information overload it is especially important to find new ways to translate research and evaluation evidence for general audiences. As many people in the mentoring community know, it’s often difficult to translate findings for the public while remaining true […]
from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Youth mentoring linked to many positive effects in children, new CAMH and Big Brothers Big Sisters research shows January 15, 2013 –The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Big Brothers Big Sisters Canada (BBBSC) are releasing the first results of one of the largest mentoring […]
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