Friday, August 18, 2006

Positive Support: Mentoring and Depression Among High-Risk Youth / Public/Private Venture, July 2006

PDF - http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/202_publication.pdf
Shawn Bauldry
"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."