Mentoring
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Effective | Implementing the program, or a program encompassed by the practice, will achieve the intended outcome. |
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Promising | Implementing the program, or a program encompassed by the practice, will achieve the intended outcome. |
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Ineffective | Implementing the program, or a program encompassed by the practice, will not achieve the intended outcome. |
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Negative Effects | Implementing the program, or program encompassed by the practice, will not result in intended outcome(s) and may result in harmful effects. |
Programs
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| Program Profile: Restoring Promise (South Carolina) |
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Prisons | This is a prison housing unit program for young adults that seeks to change correctional culture and increase safety. The program is rated Promising. Young adults in the treatment group had a statistically significant lower likelihood of violent charges and convictions, compared with the control group. There were no statistically significant differences between treatment and control groups on the number of disciplinary charges or convictions, or serious incidents or events in the facilities. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Reentry Services of Clay County (Minnesota) |
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Probation, Mental health, Substance abuse, Reentry, Case Management, Treatment, Comprehensive/wraparound services, Access to education, Corrections, Juvenile detention, Juvenile justice, Juvenile (under 18), Mentoring, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency | This is a one-to-one mentoring program aimed at improving public safety by assisting youths who commit offenses with comprehensive reentry services following their release into the community. The program is rated Ineffective. There was no statistically significant difference between program and comparison group youths in prevalence of reoffense. Program youths had statistically significantly fewer official juvenile justice contacts within 1 year of release, compared with comparison group youth Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: iMentor’s College Ready Program |
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Mental health, Youth development, Jobs and workforce development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency prevention, Juvenile delinquency | This mentoring program for urban high school students is designed to improve college readiness. The program is rated Ineffective. Compared with comparison students, treatment students were more likely to graduate and reported higher self-advocacy and critical thinking. These differences were statistically significant. There were no statistically significant differences in attending college, taking AP courses, task persistence, sitting in on college courses, seeking help, or growth mindset. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Chance UK |
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Youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile delinquency | This is a one-to-one mentoring program in which children (ages 5–11) meet weekly over 12 months with an adult volunteer. Mentors engage in structured activities to help reduce behavior and emotional problems in children by developing self-esteem, self-efficacy, social skills, and future aspirations. The program is rated Ineffective. There were no statistically significant differences between groups in parent- and teacher-rated problem or prosocial behavior or in child self-esteem or goals. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: GEAR UP – Academic Mentoring in Mathematics |
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Youth development, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency prevention, Juvenile delinquency | This is a school-based mentoring program for low-income high school students designed to increase academic achievement and college attendance and success. The program is rated Promising. Program participants had a statistically significant increase in receiving a C grade or above in algebra I and in scores on a standardized state math exam, compared with the comparison group. However, there was not a statistically significant difference between groups in receiving a C grade or above in geometry. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: One Summer Plus–Jobs Only (Chicago, Ill.) |
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Youth development, Jobs and workforce development, Property crime, Crime prevention, Mentoring, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency, Employment initiatives, Violent crime | This is a summer jobs program in Chicago, Ill., which seeks to reduce youth violence by providing high-risk students (grades 8–12) with part-time summer employment and access to an adult job mentor. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment group and the control group in violent crime arrests, property crime arrests, drug arrests, or other arrests. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Eye to Eye |
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Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Mental health, Juvenile delinquency | This is a group-mentoring afterschool program in which elementary and middle school students with the diagnosis of a learning disability (LD) or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) meet with high school or college student mentors who also have LD/ADHD, to discuss and address their strengths and challenges. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to be associated with statistically significant decreases in depression and increases in self-esteem over the program period. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Responsive Aggression Regulation Therapy (Netherlands) |
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Mental health, Violent offenders, Treatment, Recidivism, Corrections, Crime prevention, Juvenile detention, Juvenile delinquency, Mentoring, Child health and welfare | This is a responsive intervention that seeks to reduce severe aggressive behaviors of incarcerated youth at a juvenile justice institution in the Netherlands. The program is rated Promising. Intervention group youth, compared with treatment-as-usual group youth, had statistically significant higher aggression-related skills, lower cognitive distortions (such as how youth think about aggression), and a lower recidivism risk for violent and general offenses at the 3-year follow up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Mentoring Program for Youth-Headed Households in Rwanda |
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Mental health, Youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency | This is a mentoring program that uses volunteer community members to strengthen the supportive environment and improve psychosocial outcomes among youth living without an adult caregiver in rural Rwanda. The program is rated Promising. Youth in the intervention group showed statistically significant greater improvements in scores for depression, grief, marginalization, and adult support at 18 months, compared with the youth in the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Bottom Line |
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Youth development, Schools, Mentoring, Young adults (18-24) | This is a college counseling program that promotes 4-year college enrollment and completion for low-income, first-generation students. The program is rated Promising. Participants in each of two cohorts had a statistically significant greater likelihood of enrolling in a 4-year college or any college, compared with the control group. In one cohort, participants were also enrolled in more total semesters and more likely to be continuously enrolled in college, compared with control students. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial |
Practices
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| Practice Profile: Mentoring Youth With Emotional and Behavioral Problems |
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Youth development, Positive youth development, Treatment, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency | This practice encompasses programs that provide youths who have emotional and behavioral problems with supportive relationships (generally with older individuals who offer guidance and encouragement) to improve their mental health outcomes. The practice is rated Effective for improving youths’ internalizing symptoms, externalizing symptoms, and interpersonal skills. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Formal Mentoring to Prevent Youth Substance Use |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency, Legal substances | This practice encompasses programs that provide youths with formal supportive relationships and various positive, community-based activities and experiences to reduce their need to use alcohol and/or drugs. The practice is rated Effective for reducing the likelihood of alcohol initiation and reducing the likelihood of drug use initiation. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Youth-Initiated Mentoring for Youth Development |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency | Youth-initiated mentoring involves a hybrid approach in which youths are empowered to identify, develop, and strengthen natural mentoring relationships from their existing social networks, rather than being assigned a new mentor through a more formal mentoring relationship. The practice is rated Promising for improving psychological, health, school/academic, and social outcomes, and rated Ineffective for cognitive functioning outcomes. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: After-School Programs |
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Truancy, Afterschool, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Juvenile delinquency, Crime prevention, School safety, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Mental health, Juvenile delinquency, Mentoring, Drugs | After-school programs generally take place during after school hours and are designed decrease the amount of time youth are unsupervised. Examples of such programs may include recreation-based activities, mentoring, and tutoring services. The practice is rated Promising for child self-perceptions, school bonding, school grades, positive social behaviors, problem behaviors, readings scores, and mathematics scores and Ineffective for delinquency, drug use, and school attendance. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Dropout Prevention Programs |
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Dropout/expulsion, School safety, Truancy, Afterschool, Alternative schools, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Mentoring | School- or community-based programs targeting frequently absent students or students at risk of dropping out of school. These programs are aimed at increasing school engagement, school attachment, and the academic performance of students, with the main objective of increasing graduation rates. The practice is rated Effective for reducing rates of school dropouts, and rated Promising for improving test scores/grades, graduation rates, and attendance. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Targeted Truancy Interventions |
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Truancy, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Mentoring | These interventions are designed to increase attendance for elementary and secondary school students with chronic attendance problems. The practice is rated Effective for improving attendance. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Mentoring for Youth Development |
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Schools, Juvenile health, Mental health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Truancy, Youth development, Positive youth development, Afterschool, Juvenile delinquency, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Drugs | This practice provides youth with a positive and consistent adult or older youth relationship to promote healthy youth development and social functioning and to reduce risk factors. The practice is rated Effective in reducing delinquency and improving educational outcomes; Promising in improving psychological outcomes and cognitive functioning; and No Effects in reducing substance use. Date Posted: |
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