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		High School Mentors In Brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study

By Linda Jucovy and Carla Herrera October 2009, 4 pages This issue of P/PV In Brief is based on High School Students as Mentors, a report that examined the efficacy of high school mentors using data from P/PV's large-scale random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring programs.

		Mentoring Former Prisoners: A Guide for Reentry Programs

By Renata Cobbs Fletcher and Jerry Sherk with Linda Jucovy November 2009, 90 pages This manual draws on the experience of the 11 sites involved in P/PV's Ready4Work prisoner reentry demonstration, as well as established best practices, to provide guidelines for practitioners interested in developing mentoring programs to support former prisoners and enhance the effectiveness of other reentry services.

		Evaluating Mentoring Programs

by Jean Baldwin Grossman September 2009, 23 pages This methodological brief is designed to provide both program operators and researchers with practical advice about how to assess a program's implementation and impact. Adapted from an article that first appeared in The Handbook of Youth Mentoring (DuBois and Karcher, ed. 2005), the brief focuses on the evaluation of mentoring programs, but the lessons and insights provided are broadly applicable to various kinds of social programs.

Overview


In the late 1980s, intrigued by the potential of mentoring, but concerned about a lack of solid information, P/PV sought to determine if "created" adult/youth relationships could have positive impacts on youth. Since that time, we have examined not only whether youth benefit from various forms of mentoring but also the qualities that characterize "effective" mentoring relationships and the practices and administrative structures that facilitate their growth. More >>

Recent Publications

Mentoring Formerly Incarcerated Adults: Insights from the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative
This report explores mentoring as a tool for supporting the successful reentry of formerly incarcerated people, providing insights about how mentoring, or supportive relationships more broadly, can fit into comprehensive reentry efforts.

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Mentoring, Policy and Politics
In this policy brief, former P/PV President Gary Walker reflects on the impact and appeal of mentoring, addresses various critiques of the movement and suggests future directions for mentoring's application.

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Making a Difference in Schools: The Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study
This report presents the findings of P/PV's landmark random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring—the first national study of this program model. The accompanying executive summary can be found here.

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Major Initiatives

Amachi
In 2001, P/PV launched Amachi, unique partnership involving both secular and faith-based organizations working together to provide mentoring to children of incarcerated parents. P/PV has assisted more than 350 programs in all 50 states; these programs have provided mentors for more than 100,000 children.

Mentoring At-Risk Youth Project
P/PV is conducting an outcomes study and a random assignment impact study to explore the extent to which higher-risk youth benefit from community-based mentoring and the types of program practices that are linked most closely with youth benefits.

School-Based Mentoring
P/PV has published three past reports on school-based mentoring and has just completed landmark random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring—the first national study of this program model.

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