Long-term Mentoring Relationships and Extending the Impacts of the Youth Mentoring Experience into Young Adulthood, Missouri, 2017-2019 (ICPSR 37839)
Version Date: Sep 15, 2021 View help for published
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Rebecca Stelter, Innovation Research & Training
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37839.v1
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The focus of this study is on the relationship between participants in a mentoring program for youths at risk and program staff. A motive for this study is to determine the existence of a genuine long-term impact between these two groups. Although numerous mentoring programs argue that there are benefits to their existence, there had been previously little data to justify these claims. This study contains a mixture of statistical data and qualitative information.
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The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of mentoring programs for youths at risk. Specifically, if participants in different roles (mentor, mentee, parent or caregiver, and mentoring program staff) support and sustain the development of a long-term mentoring relationship. Additionally, if young adults who participate in a mentoring transition program after their long-term mentoring relationship has formally ended differ from young adult former mentees who do not participate in this program.
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This study consists of a mixed-methods approach between two distinct groups. Program staff were interviewed in a semi-structured format, and their responses were transcribed into qualitative information. Former mentees were administered an online survey.
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This study utilized a convenience sample and consists of two populations: mentoring program staff (n = 19) from six, one-to-one, community-based mentoring programs and adult, former mentees (n = 117) from a single youth mentoring program.
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Staff and participants in a mentoring program for youths.
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Both datasets consist of demographic information of respondents (race, age, sex, educational background). For program staff, the respective dataset includes variables related to the work background of respondents. The former mentees dataset consists of respondents' views on participating in the mentoring program and related outcomes.
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