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Mentoring Former Prisoners: A Guide for Reentry Programs
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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. |
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Evaluating Mentoring Programs
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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. |
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Overview
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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.
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Recent Publications
Major Initiatives
Amachi
In 2000, P/PV launched Amachi, a 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.
First Place for Youth Evaluation
P/PV is conducting a formative evaluation of the First Place for Youth (FPFY) My First Place program. FPFY is a Bay Area–based nonprofit founded to promote the long-term mental, physical and economic health of youth ages 16 to 24 who are aging out of the foster care system.
Latin American Youth Center Promotores Pathway Model Impact Evaluation
P/PV is conducting a random assignment evaluation of the Promotores Pathway Model—in which staff members provide disconnected youth with holistic supports—to discover if youth participation in leads to improved outcomes.
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 done extensive work on school-based mentoring, including a 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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