Research and Resources

This page contains links to research and resources for Youth Development, Mentoring Best Practices, Mentoring Impact

and more! Learn more about MNY's 2017 Discovering the Possibilities Resource Guide!

Youth Development

LGBTQ

• Mentoring Tactics: Mentoring Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Youth

• Youth at disproportionate risk

• Mentoring for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Questioning, Intersex, Gender NonConforming Youth

Underserved Youth

• Defining Youth at Risk

• The Role of Risk: Mentoring Experiences and Outcomes for Youth with Varying Risk Profiles

• Do Youth Mentoring Programs Change the Perspectives and Improve the life opportunities of at risk youth?

• Supporting Young People in the Wake of Violence and Trauma

• Positive Support: Mentoring and Depression Among High-Risk Youth

• Youth Initiated Mentoring: Investigating a new approach to working with vulnerable adolescents

• Mentoring Immigrant and Refugee Youth-Toolkit for Program Coordinators

• Mentoring for First-Generation Immigrant and Refugee Youth

• Guide to Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color-MBK and MENTOR

• The Need for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities

• Mentoring for Youth with Mental Health Challenges

• Mentoring for Children with Incarcerated Parents

• Mentoring for Youth with Backgrounds of Involvement in Commercial Activity

Mentoring Impact

• Mentoring: A Promising Strategy for Youth Development

• The Value in Mentoring our Youth

• Evaluation of the DYCD YMI Cornerstone Mentoring

• Mentoring: At the Crossroads for Education, Business and Community

• The Mentoring Effect: Young Peoples Perspective on the outcomes and availability of mentoring

Dropout Rates

• Graduation Rates in New York State hits a new high 79.4%

Chronic Absenteeism

• What is Chronic Absence

• Student Absenteeism Indicators on Children and Youth

• Chronic Elementary Absenteeism a Problem hidden in Plain Sight

• Preventing Missed Opportunity: Taking Collective Action to Confront Chronic Absence

Risk Behaviors

• The Use of Mentoring Programs to Improve Energy Balance Behaviors in High Risk Children

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Mentoring Best Practices

Recruitment

• The Importance of effective recruitment and selection

Screening

• Screening mentors, you may have to say no

Training

• Readiness Matter- The importance and Impact of Mentor Training

Orientation

• Tips for intake and orientation for mentees and parents/guardians/ mentee orientation manual

• Mentor Orientation Training, Activities, Agenda, Roles, and Expectations

Matching

• Matching by Race and Gender in Mentoring Relationships: Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize

• Validating a Mentoring Relationship Quality Scale: Does Match Strength Predict Match Length?

• The Influence of same versus cross-gender matching in formal youth mentoring programs

Management

• “Mentoring Up”: Learning to Manage Your Mentoring Relationships

• Managing Mentoring Challenges (Tip sheet)

Retention

• More Than Saying "Thank You": Comprehension Approaches to Mentor Retention

• Top 8 Ways to Show Volunteer Appreciation

Match Closure

• Bringing Closure to the Mentoring Relationship

• "They always come, and they never say goodbye" Understanding Healthy Closure in Youth Mentoring

Additional Resources

• Developing Youth Through a Growth Mindset

• Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid

• Closing the Academic Achievement Gap for African American Boys

• Invisible Students Bridging the Widest Achievement Gaps

• Closing the Opportunity Gap: Driving School Success

• Mentors: How to Maximize Mentoring Success

• Mentoring Millennials

• What The Best Mentors Do

• Mentoring Youth Who May Have Experienced Trauma

Webinars about mentoring youth who have experienced Trauma:

• A New Lens for Mentoring: Trauma Informed Care