Positive Support: Mentoring and Depression Among High-Risk Youth
Contributing Organization(s): Public/Private Ventures
Author(s)/Creator(s): Shawn Bauldry
Publishing Date: 2006-06-01
Issue Areas: Children and Youth
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Positive Support examines potential benefits of matching high-risk youth with faith-based mentors. Drawing on surveys and interviews with young people who participated in the National Faith-Based Initiative, we found that mentored youth were less likely to show signs of depression than the youth who were not matched with a mentor. This in turn was related to a variety of other beneficial outcomes, including handling conflict better and fewer self-reported instances of arrests. The report concludes with a consideration of the challenges of implementing a mentoring program for high-risk youth and how they might be overcome.
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