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 …

Whilst the rapid advancement of technology in the 21st century has facilitated the online
collection, storage, retrieval, manipulation, and transmission of individuals' personal …

Foster care is the preferred type of out-of-home placement for children and youth when they
are not able to live with their own parents. However, placement instability, and its effect on …

In meta-analysis, study participants are nested within studies, leading to a multilevel data
structure. The traditional random effects model can be considered as a model with a random …

Mentoring has experienced a tremendous upswing over the past decades, which has only
recently slowed down somewhat. One possible factor explaining mentoring's popularity are …

We document a largely unrecognized pathway through which schools promote human
capital development–by fostering informal mentoring relationships between students and …

Growing and diversifying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
professional communities is critically important. According to the Process Model of …

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 …

Formal community-based youth mentoring relationships (CBM) are a popular form of
intervention worldwide in which caring, non-parental adult figures are matched with at-risk …

Objective This multilevel meta-analysis compared the outcomes of Treatment Foster Care
Oregon for Adolescents (TFCO-A) and home-based treatment programs (HBT) with …