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Adult/Youth Relationships Pilot Project: Initial Implementation Report

Amachi In Brief

Amachi: Mentoring Children of Prisoners in Philadelphia

Big Brothers/Big Sisters: A Study of Program Practices

Big Brothers/Big Sisters: A Study of Volunteer Recruitment and Screening

Building from the Ground Up: Creating Effective Programs to Mentor Children of Prisoners (The Amachi Model)

Building Relationships With Youth in Program Settings: A Study of Big Brothers/Big Sisters

Building Relationships: A Guide for New Mentors

College Students as Mentors for At-Risk Youth: A Study of Six Campus Partners in Learning Programs

Contemporary Issues in Mentoring

Evaluating Mentoring Programs

Group Mentoring: A Study of Mentoring Groups in Three Programs

Guides for the Journey: Supporting High-Risk Youth with Paid Mentors and Counselors

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

High School Students as Mentors: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study

High School Students as Mentors: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study Executive Summary

I Have a Dream in Washington, D.C.: Initial Report

Making a Difference in Schools: The Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study

Making a Difference in Schools: The Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study
Executive Summary


Making a Difference: An Impact Study of Big Brothers/Big Sisters
(Re-issue of 1995 Study)


Measuring the Quality of Mentor-Youth Relationships: A Tool for Mentoring Programs

Mentoring Former Prisoners: A Guide for Reentry Programs

Mentoring Formerly Incarcerated Adults: Insights from the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative

Mentoring in the Juvenile Justice System: Findings from Two Pilot Programs

Mentoring School-Age Children: A Classification of Programs

Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs

Mentoring Sexual Minority Youth

Mentoring: A Synthesis of P/PV's Research: 1988-1995

P/PV Preview: Mentoring Ex-Prisoners in the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative

Partners in Growth: Elder Mentors and At-Risk Youth Executive Summary

Positive Support: Mentoring and Depression Among High-Risk Youth

Recruiting Mentors: A Guide to Finding Volunteers

Relationships in a Career Mentoring Program: Lessons Learned from the Hospital Youth Mentoring Program

Same Race and Cross Race Matching

School-Based Mentoring: A Closer Look

School-Based Mentoring: A First Look Into Its Potential

Supporting Mentors

The ABCs of School-Based Mentoring

The Kindness of Strangers: Reflections on the Mentoring Movement

The Promise and Challenge of Mentoring High-Risk Youth: Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative

Training New Mentors

Understanding How Youth and Elders Form Relationships: A Study of Four Linking Lifetimes Programs

Youth Development: Issues, Challenges and Directions


Mentoring, Policy and Politics

by Gary Walker
October 2007, 17 pages


In this policy brief, former P/PV President Gary Walker asks, Is mentoring now a durable part of American social policy? If so, is this unalloyed good news? Adapted from an article that first appeared in The Handbook of Youth Mentoring (DuBois and Karcher, ed. 2005), the brief 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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