With traditional mentoring programs working hard to attract new kinds of volunteers and schools facing increased pressure to help students succeed, school-based mentoring is a promising and increasingly popular approach. According to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the number of school-based matches grew from 27,000 in 1999 to 90,000 in 2002, an increase of 233 percent. P/PV has published two previous reports on the school-based mentoring model. School-Based Mentoring: A Closer Look follows up on those earlier studies by analyzing the results of surveys we conducted with youth, mentors, teachers and case managers involved in three BBBS school-based mentoring programs. The report addresses the following questions: What are the characteristics of mentor-youth matches in school-based programs? What is the quality of the
Title: School-Based Mentoring: A Closer Look
Publication date 2004-12-06
Publication Year 2004
Authors
Carla Herrera
Copyright holder(s)
Public/Private Ventures
Keywords
youth
, school based
, SBM
, mentee
, match length
Document type
Report/Whitepaper
, Text
Language
English
URL: https://ppv.issuelab.org/resource/school-based-mentoring-a-closer-look.html
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