A Guide To Youth Mentoring

Author : Pat Dolan,Bernadine Brady
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857003399

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A Guide to Youth Mentoring by Pat Dolan,Bernadine Brady Pdf

Youth mentoring can be an effective way of supporting troubled youth, helping them sustain positive mental health, cope with stress, and lead successful lives through adolescence and into adulthood. This book is a comprehensive guide to youth mentoring programmes, illustrating how, if managed well, they can increase the social support available to young people. It outlines the objectives and benefits of mentoring, how it works, and how to mentor successfully. Youth mentoring in community and school settings is covered, as well as mentoring for vulnerable youth. The book illustrates different mentoring models and provides practical strategies for assessing, setting up, and monitoring the mentoring relationship and its outcomes for the young person. The challenges and difficulties associated with mentoring programmes and strategies to overcome them are also addressed. This will be an essential guide for anyone working with young people, including youth workers, social workers, residential care staff, foster carers, community development workers, teachers and community police.

Author : Jean E. Rhodes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674250109

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Older and Wiser by Jean E. Rhodes Pdf

Youth mentoring programs must change in order to become truly effective. The world’s leading expert shows how. Youth mentoring is among the most popular forms of volunteering in the world. But does it work? Does mentoring actually help young people succeed? In Older and Wiser, mentoring expert Jean Rhodes draws on more than thirty years of empirical research to survey the state of the field. Her conclusion is sobering: there is little evidence that most programs—even renowned, trusted, and long-established ones—are effective. But there is also much reason for hope. Mentoring programs, Rhodes writes, do not focus on what young people need. Organizations typically prioritize building emotional bonds between mentors and mentees. But research makes clear that effective programs emphasize the development of specific social, emotional, and intellectual skills. Most mentoring programs are poorly suited to this effort because they rely overwhelmingly on volunteers, who rarely have the training necessary to teach these skills to young people. Moreover, the one-size-fits-all models of major mentoring organizations struggle to deal with the diverse backgrounds of mentees, the psychological effects of poverty on children, and increasingly hard limits to upward mobility in an unequal world. Rhodes doesn’t think we should give up on mentoring—far from it. She shows that evidence-based approaches can in fact create meaningful change in young people’s lives. She also recommends encouraging “organic” mentorship opportunities—in schools, youth sports leagues, and community organizations.

Author : Torie Weiston-Serdan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000977110

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Critical Mentoring by Torie Weiston-Serdan Pdf

This book introduces the concept of critical mentoring, presenting its theoretical and empirical foundations, and providing telling examples of what it looks like in practice, and what it can achieve. At this juncture when the demographics of our schools and colleges are rapidly changing, critical mentoring provides mentors with a new and essential transformational practice that challenges deficit-based notions of protégés, questions their forced adaptation to dominant ideology, counters the marginalization and minoritization of young people of color, and endows them with voice, power and choice to achieve in society while validating their culture and values.Critical mentoring places youth at the center of the process, challenging norms of adult and institutional authority and notions of saviorism to create collaborative partnerships with youth and communities that recognize there are multiple sources of expertise and knowledge. Torie Weiston-Serdan outlines the underlying foundations of critical race theory, cultural competence and intersectionality, describes how collaborative mentoring works in practice in terms of dispositions and structures, and addresses the implications of rethinking about the purposes and delivery of mentoring services, both for mentors themselves and the organizations for which they work. Each chapter ends with a set of salient questions to ask and key actions to take. These are meant to move the reader from thought to action and provide a basis for discussion.This book offers strategies that are immediately applicable and will create a process that is participatory, emancipatory and transformative.

Author : Maureen A. Buckley,Sandra Hundley Zimmermann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313057496

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Mentoring Children and Adolescents by Maureen A. Buckley,Sandra Hundley Zimmermann Pdf

Written in a clear, straightforward manner, this comprehensive volume offers an overview of the concept of mentoring and information on the role that caring adult-youth relationships play in fostering positive development for young people. The book presents up-to-date research on the efficacy and limitations of mentoring, types of mentoring programs, and key figures in the mentoring movement. It presents accessible information on issues crucial to developing, implementing, and assessing effective mentoring ventures. Also included are an extensive collection of current, practical resources and a directory of mentoring initiatives, foundations, and organizations. A valuable resource for young people seeking adult connections, this book is also beneficial to school personnel, youth group leaders, directors of volunteer programs, and anyone who cares about young people and youth issues.

Author : David L. DuBois,Michael J. Karcher
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483309811

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Handbook of Youth Mentoring by David L. DuBois,Michael J. Karcher Pdf

This thoroughly updated Second Edition of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring presents the only comprehensive synthesis of current theory, research, and practice in the field of youth mentoring. Editors David L. DuBois and Michael J. Karcher gather leading experts in the field to offer critical and informative analyses of the full spectrum of topics that are essential to advancing our understanding of the principles for effective mentoring of young people. This volume includes twenty new chapter topics and eighteen completely revised chapters based on the latest research on these topics. Each chapter has been reviewed by leading practitioners, making this handbook the strongest bridge between research and practice available in the field of youth mentoring.

Author : Jean E RHODES
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674042681

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Stand by Me by Jean E RHODES Pdf

A child at loose ends needs help, and someone steps in--a Big Brother, a Big Sister, a mentor from the growing ranks of volunteers offering their time and guidance to more than two million American adolescents. Does it help? How effective are mentoring programs, and how do they work? Are there pitfalls, and if so, what are they? Such questions, ever more pressing as youth mentoring initiatives expand their reach at a breakneck pace, have occupied Jean Rhodes for more than a decade. In this provocative, thoroughly researched, and lucidly written book, Rhodes offers readers the benefit of the latest findings in this burgeoning field, including those from her own extensive, groundbreaking studies. Outlining a model of youth mentoring that will prove invaluable to the many administrators, caseworkers, volunteers, and researchers who seek reliable information and practical guidance, Stand by Me describes the extraordinary potential that exists in such relationships, and discloses the ways in which nonparent adults are uniquely positioned to encourage adolescent development. Yet the book also exposes a rarely acknowledged risk: unsuccessful mentoring relationships--always a danger when, in a rush to form matches, mentors are dispatched with more enthusiasm than understanding and preparation--can actually harm at-risk youth. Vulnerable children, Rhodes demonstrates, are better left alone than paired with mentors who cannot hold up their end of the relationships. Drawing on work in the fields of psychology and personal relations, Rhodes provides concrete suggestions for improving mentoring programs and creating effective, enduring mentoring relationships with youth.

Author : Pat Dolan,Bernadine Brady
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849051484

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A Guide to Youth Mentoring by Pat Dolan,Bernadine Brady Pdf

Covers the objectives and benefits of youth mentoring, how it works and how to mentor successfully in both community and school settings, in a book that also includes practical models and strategies. Original.

Author : Robert F. Lowery
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781663219954

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Effective Mentoring by Robert F. Lowery Pdf

Today, more than ever before, our youth need quality mentors to guide them to fulfill their potential and destinies. Thankfully, there are proven techniques that will help anyone ready to set out on a challenging yet rewarding journey to positively impact the life of someone else. In a comprehensive reference manual, Robert Lowery relies on his seventeen years of experience as a youth development professional and long-time mentor to share not only his personal story through life and how he came into direct service youth work and mentorship, but also stories from experienced mentors who have impacted the lives of hundreds of young people through their guidance. While leading prospective mentors through a practical roadmap that includes the frameworks, mindsets, and tools necessary to become a quality mentor, Lowery also offers insight into: • why mentorship is more important today than ever before; • the characteristics of a good mentor; • the pitfalls to avoid and challenges to overcome; • how to effectively mentor those within an organization; and • the myriad of ways one can become involved in mentorship. Effective Mentoring is a concise guide that contains personal stories, wisdom, and tools from a seasoned youth development specialist tailored toward anyone interested in becoming a positive role model for today’s youth.

Author : Sidney Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615823947

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Allow Them the Opportunity to Change by Sidney Johnson Pdf

Allow Them the Opportunity to Change" will empower you to work with young people in any capacity and will provide proven strategies for identifying and removing stumbling blocks that limit progress. This book will allow you to relieve the frustration you experience in attempting to reach a generation of young people whom many consider "troubled". You will learn to develop quality relationships with young people; engage young people in the kind of honest, high impact conversations that lead to lasting change; allowing you to become the primary influence in their lives. Schools, parents, children, and neighbors are all challenged to answer the bell. Sidney W. Johnson is committed to helping adults become advocates for their youth, thereby empowering youth in spite of their story to "rise above their story."

Author : Gail Manza,Susan K. Patrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 1574822861

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The Mentor's Field Guide by Gail Manza,Susan K. Patrick Pdf

Designed to be a one-stop resource for mentors, this guide doesn't flinch from the tough problems. Using a helpful question-and-answer format, it addresses issues that include How do I connect with my mentee? What if I don't like my mentee? and If my mentee is in serious trouble, how far do I go to help him? Organized topically by issue, the book provides mentors with advice they need both in the ever-changing and sometimes challenging mentoring relationship and within the parameters of a mentoring program. For mentors, the book addresses the rewards as well as the risks of mentoring, while program leaders can use the challenges and solutions to help mentors understand their roles and equip them to handle tough mentoring issues.

Author : Ruth Hassall
Publisher : Brf
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1800391285

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Growing Young Leaders by Ruth Hassall Pdf

This fully updated second edition of Growing Young Leaders offers practical guidance for all those mentoring 13- to 18-year-olds in a faith context, with a view to nurturing them towards leadership roles. Linked to CPAS Growing Leaders - Youth Edition course, it also works as a stand-alone resource. It defines mentoring, analyses the necessary skills and attributes of a mentor today, encourages good practice, considers safeguarding issues and, above all, considers how to help young people identify their gifts and grow as Christian disciples.

Author : Jill Gurr
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Mentoring
ISBN : 1466376279

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Mentor Youth Now - A Guidebook for Transforming Young Lives by Jill Gurr Pdf

Mentor Youth Now covers all aspects of mentoring, from the basics to setting boundaries, teaching life skills and how to end a mentoring relationship. This guidebook is packed with detailed information on the process of becoming a mentor, field-tested projects through creative arts mentoring, solutions to challenges, inspirational stories about mentors from around the country, dozens of mentoring organizations in the U.S., more than 100 fun places to visit and things to do, sample templates plus The State of America's Youth, a 30-page cited report. With this book, anyone can become a powerful and confident mentor to help impact young lives. 20% of the proceeds will benefit Create Now (www.createnow.org), which provides creative arts mentoring to thousands of troubled kids.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Effective Mentoring in STEMM
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309497299

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The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Effective Mentoring in STEMM Pdf

Mentorship is a catalyst capable of unleashing one's potential for discovery, curiosity, and participation in STEMM and subsequently improving the training environment in which that STEMM potential is fostered. Mentoring relationships provide developmental spaces in which students' STEMM skills are honed and pathways into STEMM fields can be discovered. Because mentorship can be so influential in shaping the future STEMM workforce, its occurrence should not be left to chance or idiosyncratic implementation. There is a gap between what we know about effective mentoring and how it is practiced in higher education. The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM studies mentoring programs and practices at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It explores the importance of mentorship, the science of mentoring relationships, mentorship of underrepresented students in STEMM, mentorship structures and behaviors, and institutional cultures that support mentorship. This report and its complementary interactive guide present insights on effective programs and practices that can be adopted and adapted by institutions, departments, and individual faculty members.

Author : Robin Cox
Publisher : Robin Cox
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mentoring
ISBN : 9780476013001

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The Spirit of Mentoring by Robin Cox Pdf

Author : Patricia L. Fry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0764810154

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Youth Mentoring by Patricia L. Fry Pdf

Mentoring a child may be easier than you think, and there are an abundance of resources available to help you do so. Countless numbers of our young people need your companionship, your nurture, and your example in order to mature into responsible and responsive adults. Whether you have a little time or a lot, what you are willing to give to a child may make the difference in that yound person's ability to succeed as an adult Christian member of society. "Youth Mentoring" is filled with encouragement, ideas, real-life vignettes, and resources that will help you become a mentor--a friend and a model of Christian virtue for today's troubled youth to emulate. "Paperback"