This study’s findings support the effectiveness of mentoring
for improving outcomes across behavioral, social, emotional, and academic
domains of young people’s development. The most common pattern of benefits is
for mentored youth to exhibit positive gains on outcome measures while
nonmentored youth exhibit declines. It appears then that mentoring as an
intervention strategy has the capacity to serve both promotion and prevention
aims. Programs also show evidence of being able to affect multiple domains of
youth functioning simultaneously and to improve selected outcomes of policy
interest (e.g., academic achievement test scores).
DuBois, D. L., Portillo, N., Rhodes, J. E., Silverthorn, N.,
& Valentine, J. C. (2011). How effective are mentoring programs for youth?:
A systematic assessment of the evidence. Psychological
Science in the Public Interest, 12(2), 57-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1529100611414806
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