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Older and Wiser: New Ideas for Youth Mentoring in the 21st Century with Dr. Jean E. Rhodes

In episode 75 of You Can Mentor Podcast, Stephen and Zack interview Dr. Jean E. Rhodes about her thoughts concerning the effectiveness of youth mentoring, as well as her new book, Older and Wiser.  Click here to listen to the episode.  

Keynote speakers and workshops announced for European Mentoring Summit 2020!

The European Mentoring Summit is fast approaching, and the itinerary has been revealed. Jean Rhodes, of the Center for Evidence Based Mentoring, will be delivering a key note address at the event alongside several other excellent speakers. There is now also a full list of workshops available on the European Mentoring Summit website. If you […]

Learning from the Field of Work-Based Mentoring

by Jean Rhodes For decades, the fields of youth mentoring and work-based mentoring have operated on parallel tracks–covering the same terrain but somehow unaffected by of each other. With few exceptions (e.g., the excellent  Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring, which is edited by Professors Tammy Brown and Lillian Eby), disciplinary boundaries have gotten in the way of learning what […]

Now online: The new science of mentoring: Leveraging evidence to improve outcomes

See the keynote address that Professor Jean Rhodes gave at the European Mentoring Congress last year. https://vimeo.com/89859321 Keynote address from the 2014 Mentoring Congress in Heerenveen, The Netherlands on March 20th, 2014. Dr. Jean Rhodes, Frank L. Boyden Professor of Psychology at University of Massachusetts Boston and Research Director of The Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring, […]

Jean Rhodes receives the UMass Boston 2015 Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship

On May 29, 2015, Jean Rhodes was awarded the UMass Boston 2015 Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship. Click here to view Jean Rhodes receiving the award.