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Results for mentoring (u.s.)
3 results foundAuthor: Miller, J. Mitchell Title: Referring Youth in Juvenile Justice Settings to Mentoring Programs: Effective Strategies and Practices to Improving the Mentoring Experience for At-Risk and High-Risk Youth. A Resource Compendium Summary: examines best practices for referring youth to mentoring when they are in certain juvenile justice system settings, including Juvenile Detention, Juvenile Corrections, Juvenile Probation, Delinquency Court, Youth/Teen Court and Dependency Court. As a low-cost delinquency prevention and intervention option that capitalizes on the resources of local communities and caring individuals, mentoring has emerged as a promising delinquency reduction strategy for at-risk or high-risk youth. This research study, which used multiple methods to capture data from mentoring and juvenile justice settings, provides a deeper understanding of how youth are referred to mentoring, challenges faced during the referral process, examples of effective strategies to face the challenges and action steps. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2012. 162p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 4, 2013 at: http://www.mentoring.org/images/uploads/Journal%20Article.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://www.mentoring.org/images/uploads/Journal%20Article.pdf Shelf Number: 127472 Keywords: At-risk YouthDelinquency PreventionMentoring (U.S.) |
Author: Herrera, Carla Title: The Role of Risk: Mentoring Experiences and Outcomes for Youth with Varying Risk Profiles Summary: More and more, mentoring programs are being asked to serve higher-risk youth—for example, those in foster care or the juvenile justice system or youth with a parent who is incarcerated. This impulse is understandable: Studies have illuminated the varied benefits that mentoring programs can provide, including improving academics and relationships with others and reducing involvement in problem behaviors. Higher-risk youth are clearly in need of such support. While these youth are often viewed through the lens of likely future costs to their communities, they also embody enormous unrealized potential. With the right kinds of support, these young people could put themselves on a path toward bright, productive futures, and make vital contributions to their families, neighborhoods and nation. Many hope that mentoring programs can help make this vision a reality. Yet few studies have examined and compared the benefits of mentoring for youth with differing types or sources of risk. The Role of Risk: Mentoring Experiences and Outcomes for Youth with Varying Risk Profiles presents findings from the first large-scale study to examine how the levels and types of risk youth face may influence their relationships with program-assigned mentors and the benefits they derive from these relationships. The study looked closely at the backgrounds of participating youth and their mentors, the mentoring relationships that formed, the program supports that were offered, and the benefits that youth accrued—and assessed how these varied for youth with differing “profiles” of risk. We believe the study’s results provide useful guidance for practitioners, funders and policymakers who want to know which youth are best suited for mentoring and how practices might be strengthened to help ensure that youth facing a variety of risks get the most out of their mentoring experience. Details: New York: A Public/Private Ventures project distributed by MDRC, 2013. 132p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 18, 2013 at: http://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/Role%20of%20Risk_Final-web%20PDF.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/Role%20of%20Risk_Final-web%20PDF.pdf Shelf Number: 127969 Keywords: At-risk YouthDelinquency PreventionMentoring (U.S.) |
Author: Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria Title: Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives: Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial Summary: his paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term impacts of an after-school program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend program activities, complete high-school and enroll in post-secondary education on youths' engagement in risky behaviors, such as substance abuse, criminal activity, and teenage childbearing. Outcomes were measured at three different points in time, when youths were in their late-teens, and when they were in their early- and their late-twenties. Overall the program was unsuccessful at reducing risky behaviors. Heterogeneity matters in that perverse effects are concentrated among certain subgroups, such as males, older youths, and youths from sites where youths received higher amount of stipends. We claim that this evidence is consistent with different models of youths' behavioral response to economic incentives. In addition, beneficial effects found in those sites in which QOP youths represented a large fraction of the entering class of 9th graders provides hope for these type of programs when operated in small communities and supports the hypothesis of peer effects. Details: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2010. 63p. Source: Internet Resource: IZA Discussion Paper 4968: Accessed August 28, 2014 at: http://ftp.iza.org/dp4968.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://ftp.iza.org/dp4968.pdf Shelf Number: 133159 Keywords: After-School ProgramsAt-Risk YouthDelinquency PreventionMentoring (U.S.) |