Stand By Me: The Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth

By S. Jain, F. Paniagua. 2003

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The effects of developmental mentoring and high school mentors' attendance on their younger mentees' self‐esteem, social skills, and connectedness (2005, background): “As many as a 2.5 million youth receive some form of mentoring each year in the United States (Rhodes, 2002).”
Mentoring Programs: A Framework to Inform Program Development, Research, and Evaluation. (2006, background): “Program contexts can be described as field based or site based (Rhodes, 2002).”
“Show Me an Ounce of Respect” (2008, background): “…University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400277, Charlottesville, VA 22903; e-mail: nancyd@virginia.edu. and recent research points to the importance of supportive nonfamilial adults as well (Barber & Olsen, 2004; DuBois & Karcher, 2005; Fredriksen & Rhodes, 2004; Noam & Fiore, 2004; Rhodes, 2002).”
An interdisciplinary meta-analysis of the potential antecedents, correlates, and consequences of protégé perceptions of mentoring. (2013, background): “Protégé race may be important to consider because mentors in community (Rhodes, 2002), educational (Pope-Davis, Stone, & Neilson, 1997), and organizational (Ragins, 1997a) settings tend to be racial majority group members.”
Positive youth development, willful adolescents, and mentoring (2006, background): “Mentors can serve as “advocates” or “sponsors” and use their influence to help change the daily lives of individual youth (Rhodes, 2002).”
Positive Youth Development Processes , Philosophies , and Programs (2012, positive): “Building on the work of both Roth and Brooks-Gunn (2003a, 2003b) and Blum (2003), as well as others (e.g., Rhodes, 2002), Lerner (2004) argued that there are three fundamental characteristics of effective PYD programs.”
First do no harm: Ethical principles for youth mentoring relationships (2009, positive): “Indeed, in two, large random assignment studies, youth in prematurely terminating mentoring relationships showed increases in problem behaviors relative to a control group (Grossman & Rhodes, 2002; Herrera et al., 2007).”
Adolescents’ Negative Experiences in Organized Youth Activities (2007, positive): “Research on mentoring and youth sports suggests that a single negative experience with a mentor or coach often has proportionally more influence on that relationship than a single positive experience (Rhodes, 2002; Smoll & Smith, 1996).”
The Perceived Importance of Developmental Relationships on Women Undergraduates' Pursuit of Science1 (2005, background): “Other research has documented how youth benefit when they participate in developmental relationships with adults (Freedman, 1993; Rhodes, 2002).”
Youth Mentoring and Resilience: Implications for Practice (2008, methodology): “Research (Grossman & Rhodes, 2002; Kalbfleisch, 2002) has further suggested that difficulties often arise from such failings as the misuse of power (e.g., exploitation), inappropriate boundaries, (e.g., breaching confidentiality, improper disclosures), and communication breakdowns (e.g., breaking…”
The Protective Influence of Mentoring on Adolescents' Substance Use: Direct and Indirect Pathways (2005, background): “Because longer term relationships tend to be relatively more influential (Grossman & Rhodes, 2002), the wide variation in length among relationships might have masked the influence of mentoring.”
How Effective Are Mentoring Programs for Youth? A Systematic Assessment of the Evidence (2011, methodology): “Available evidence points to added benefits when youth experience longer-term relationships with mentors (DuBois & Rhodes, 2006; Grossman, Chan, Schwartz, & Rhodes, 2011; Grossman & Rhodes, 2002; Herrera et al., 2007; Karcher, 2005; Slicker & Palmer, 1993).”
Understanding the Mentoring Process between Adolescents and Adults (2006, background): “Fewer still provide on-going support to pairs to help resolve problems that may arise over time (Rhodes, 2002).”
An Exploratory Study of Youth Mentoring in an Urban Context: Adolescents' Perceptions of Relationship Styles (2004, methodology): “Approximately 2.5 million youth are involved in mentoring programs, including more than 10,000 matches in Big Brothers/Big Sisters nationwide (Rhodes, 2002).”
The Impact of a Sport-Based Life Skill Program on Adolescent Prosocial Values (2007, background): “Research has also shown that supportive older adults, teachers, or volunteers may contribute to positive outcomes for youth, in particular youth in higher risk environments (Rhodes, 2002).”
Positive Youth Development: Processes, Programs, and Problematics (2011, background): “Building on the work of both Roth and Brooks-Gunn (2003) and Blum (2003), as well as others (e.g., Rhodes, 2002), R. M. Lerner (2004) argued that there are three fundamental characteristics of effective PYD programs.”