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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.

Mentoring Former Prisoners: A Guide for Reentry Programs
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.
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High School Mentors In Brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study
This issue of P/PV In Brief is based on High School Students as Mentors, which explored 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 (Herrera et al. 2007).
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Evaluating Mentoring Programs
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.
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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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High School Students as Mentors: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study
Using data from our large-scale random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters SBM, this report addresses the complex questions raised by using high school students as mentors in school-based mentoring programs.
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High School Students as Mentors: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study Executive Summary
This executive summary outlines key findings and recommendations from our High School Students as Mentors report, which drew on data from our large-scale random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring (Herrera et al. 2007).
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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
Executive Summary
This executive summary of Making a Difference in Schools highlights nine key findings from the full report and outlines recommendations for policy and practice.
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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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P/PV Preview: Mentoring Ex-Prisoners in the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative
This brief previews findings from a forthcoming report on mentoring and outcomes in the Ready4Work prisoner reentry initiative. These findings suggest that mentoring is a promising strategy for supporting recently released prisoners in reconnecting to their communities.
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Positive Support: Mentoring and Depression Among High-Risk Youth
This report examines the potential benefits of matching high-risk youth with faith-based mentors. It describes findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative, in which mentored youth were less likely to show signs of depression than youth who were not mentored.
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Building from the Ground Up: Creating Effective Programs to Mentor Children of Prisoners (The Amachi Model)
This guide draws on P/PV's experience with Amachi programs around the country to distill lessons for planning, developing and managing mentoring-children-of-prisoners programs.
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School-Based Mentoring: A Closer Look
Based on surveys conducted with youth, mentors, teachers and case managers, this report explores the character and quality of matches and the potential benefits seen in school-based mentoring programs.
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Guides for the Journey: Supporting High-Risk Youth with Paid Mentors and Counselors
Guides for the Journey explores the use of paid counselors who stay with young people for extended periods of time. The report profiles three programs now using this strategy and examines how public funding to support paid mentors and counselors may be mobilized.
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The Promise and Challenge of Mentoring High-Risk Youth: Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative
Focusing on four sites in the National Faith-Based Initiative, this report examines mentoring programs designed specifically for high-risk youth, especially youth involved with the juvenile justice system.
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Amachi In Brief
This first issue of P/PV In Brief focuses on the Amachi mentoring program, which partners faith-based organizations with public agencies and nonprofit service providers to identify the children of prisoners and match them with caring adult volunteers.
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Amachi: Mentoring Children of Prisoners in Philadelphia
This report describes the Amachi model, focusing on approaches for recruiting children, pastors, and volunteers. It also details program infrastructure designed to support and monitor matches. Preliminary data on program quality and effectiveness are provided.
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Measuring the Quality of Mentor-Youth Relationships: A Tool for Mentoring Programs
This evaluation guide helps program coordinators to answer the question of, "Does my program work?" by gauging the effectiveness of both individual relationships and the program as a whole through a simple 20-question survey given to youth.
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Same Race and Cross Race Matching
This technical assistance packet provides practical tips on how to tailor matching, training, and support processes to increase the chances that cross-race matches survive.
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Group Mentoring: A Study of Mentoring Groups in Three Programs
Group Mentoring describes the strengths and challenges of group mentoring-an approach that is gaining popularity. Implications for the mentoring field and for future research are also discussed.
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Supporting Mentors
This packet helps programs develop and implement strategies that support mentors, help them build trusting relationships with their mentees and, ultimately, contribute to positive outcomes for youth.
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Building Relationships: A Guide for New Mentors
Building Relationships is a technical assistance packet filled with the voices of youth and mentors talking about their relationships, and provides advice on how to be an effective mentor.
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Training New Mentors
This packet focuses on training new mentors and includes suggested activities for two workshops that, together,will help new mentors gain a better understanding of their role and what they can do to ensure a successful relationship with the youth.
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Recruiting Mentors: A Guide to Finding Volunteers
Drawing on effective practices used by volunteer-based organizations and on research findings about mentoring, this technical assistance packet describes recruitment strategies that programs can adapt to meet their particular circumstances.
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The ABCs of School-Based Mentoring
The ABCs of School-Based Mentoring is a technical assistance packet which provides practical information for youth-serving organizations that want to implement new school-based mentoring programs or strengthen existing ones.
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Mentoring Sexual Minority Youth
Mentoring Sexual Minority Youth is a technical assistance packet for mentoring programs that may serve lesbian and gay youth and provides steps and training that programs can implement to make these youth feel safe and welcome.
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Making a Difference: An Impact Study of Big Brothers/Big Sisters
(Re-issue of 1995 Study)
This is a reissue of P/PV's 1995 impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters, Making a Difference, which proved that BBBS' high-quality mentoring has tangible and significant effects on the lives of youth.
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Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs
This report, the second in a series on Mentoring School-Age Children, compares the experiences and relationships of over 600 volunteers mentors in two different settings, comunity-based and school-based, to draw conclusions about these program types.
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