Despite decades of increased research and funding, youth mentoring programs, overall,
yield small effects on youth outcomes. As a result, there are growing calls for programs to …

Youth initiated mentoring is a hybrid approach that empowers youth to identify and recruit
natural mentors, potentially combining the strengths of informal mentoring relationships with …

Mentoring programs, which pair youth with caring, non-parental adults with the goal of
promoting positive youth development, are an increasingly popular strategy for early …

During the past decade, mentoring has proliferated as an intervention strategy for
addressing the needs that young people have for adult support and guidance throughout …

Traditional approaches to formal youth mentoring have focused primarily on improving the
lives of “at‐risk” youth through the assignment of individual mentors who are typically …

Mentoring programs hold great promise for fostering competency in disadvantaged youth.
Although considerable theoretical work has been conducted to explain the role of mentoring …

nterest in mentoring is at an all-time high, with these programs touted as a way to help kids
who seem at risk for trouble get on the right track, and also as a way for successful adults to …

Most of us know of instances in which a mentoring relationship has enabled a child or
adolescent to overcome even the most difficult life circumstances. Anecdotal reports of …

Youth mentoring is characterized by a personal relationship in which a caring individual
provides consistent companionship, support, and guidance aimed at developing the …

Initiatives to promote mentoring relationships in the lives of young people have become
immensely popular in recent years. Programs with this aim now number well into the …