Youth Mentoring Responds to Waiting For Superman

Sarah Kremer, April Riordan, Courtney Erickson, Program Director at Director of Training AmeriCorps Technical Friends For Youth’s and Community Assistance & Training Mentoring Institute Partnerships, MPM Specialist, MPM 2

Marc Wheeler 5

intervention outcome effect size SBM† reading -.01 SBM† school-related misconduct .11* Experience Corps† reading .13*,.16* SBM† truancy .18* SEL (Universal) conduct problems .23* SEL (Universal) academic performance .28* Volunteer tutoring reading .30* Volunteer tutoring writing .45* † Findings based on trials of scaled-up programs (rather than small, researcher-controlled trials). * p <.05 10

WWC Effectiveness Ratings For Dropout Prevention: Staying in school Intervention Evidence Rating Includes Mentoring* ALAS Potentially positive effects YES Check & Connect Positive effects YES Accelerated Middle Schools Potentially positive effects NO Twelve Together Potentially positive effects YES Career Academies Potentially positive effects NO (POSSIBLY SOME WORK- SITE) Financial Incentives for Teen Potentially positive effects NO Parents to Stay in School *Mentoring elements in these programs tend to be more time-intensive and structured than those found in typical SBM programs. 11

Charles Velschow 12

  Measuring Interest in Mentoring from Waiting For Superman film   Link to the Survey from MENTOR 17

Jean Lahage Cohen Executive Director Mentoring Partnerships of New York and Long Island 18

Discovering the Possibilities Pre Post survey survey It’s too early to think about college (agree and 24% 17% strongly agree) I know how to find out about careers (agree 64% 76% and strongly agree) Know what I have to do to get to college 58% 71% (agree and strongly agree) A lot of financial aid is available to go to 38% 63% college (agree and strongly agree) You don’t need to go to college to get a good 38% 88% job (disagree and strongly disagree) 19

you ood college, rity ge t into a g des, prio To od gra That if you learn to believe in have go nd knowledge need to kills a y yourself and your abilities in yo ur life, s , and good stud and work hard to improve b in a s pecific jo uld always be My m e those abilities, you can ho That in orderrto skill s. You s to do well in you going to ntor has accomplish anything. 10% succeed and live e a ba c sh w ork ing all 1 life. good life you need ccep ollege. I own m ted e have into believe the val to finish college a th u a co job of m e only e of and continue llege y de way t edu o learning. catio sire is to n. That you have to finish high school strong. 20

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Friends for Youth’s Mentoring Institute   Mentoring Journal - Resource for matches to engage with each other by doing activities toether and for programs to track the relationship   Academic Activity Guide – Lists many learning activities, especially appropriate for School-Based Mentoring Programs 24

MPM’s K-12 Journey Map “Discovering the Possibilities” toolkit (pdf) 25

Producers of Waiting for Superman 26

  This webinar was offered as part of the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota’s free webinar series   November 3, 10 -11:15pm PST   Next Quality in Action Webinar:   December 1, 12-1 pm CST   Topic: Preparing mentees for mentoring relationships 28

Youth Mentoring Responds to Waiting For Superman

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