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TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES……………………………………………………………………………….iii LIST OF FIGURES ...................................................................................................................... vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................................... viii INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 1 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON YOUTH MENTORING .................................................. 4 TYPES OF MENTORING ......................................................................................................... 6 EFFECTIVENESS OF MENTORING....................................................................................... 8 SPECIFIC FACTORS RELATED TO EFFECTIVENESS ..................................................... 10 SPECIFIC OUTCOMES OF MENTORING ........................................................................... 15 PROGRAM INFRASTRUCTURE .......................................................................................... 19 COST OF MENTORING PROGRAMS .................................................................................. 20 SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. 23 PREVIOUS EVALUATIONS OF 4-H/YFP MENTORING ................................................... 23 PROCESS EVALUATION .......................................................................................................... 25 OVERVIEW AND HISTORY OF 4-H MENTORING/YFP .................................................. 25 PROCESS EVALUATION METHODOLOGY ...................................................................... 30 PROGRAM DESIGN ............................................................................................................... 36 PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION .......................................................................................... 41 PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS.................................................................................................. 59 MENTOR CHARACTERISTICS ............................................................................................ 66 TIME IN PROGRAM ............................................................................................................... 73 REASONS FOR UNMATCH AND PROGRAM DISCHARGE ............................................ 74 i
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................... 77 OUTCOME EVALUATION ........................................................................................................ 82 OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................. 82 DATA COLLECTION ............................................................................................................. 84 RESULTS ................................................................................................................................. 97 PROGRAM COSTS ................................................................................................................... 138 OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................... 138 ACTUAL SITE COSTS ......................................................................................................... 139 Discussion <strong>and</strong> Conclusions ....................................................................................................... 141 FINDINGS .............................................................................................................................. 141 LIMITATIONS ....................................................................................................................... 152 IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................. 157 GENERALIZABILITY OF FINDINGS ................................................................................ 159 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................... 160 Appendix A: Data Collection Forms .......................................................................................... 167 Appendix B: Site-Specific Information ..................................................................................... 168 ii
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Predicting Change on the BERS-2 Sub
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percentage (83%) of comparison yout
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youths were closest to “mostly Bs
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skipped school, but improvement on
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PROGRAM COSTS Overview In order to
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There was substantial variation by
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school performance nor scores on th
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for several subscales they continue
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youth met with their mentor once ev
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differences is the concentration of
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court-involved. It may be that thos
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of a weak method, the “retrospect
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started out equivalent, we would ha
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implementation matched the program
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The results from our study of 4-H M
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REFERENCES Ahrens, K., DuBois, D.,
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Freedman, M. (1993). The Kindness o
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Larose, S., Ceyrenne, D., Garceau,
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Scales, P.C., & Leffert, N. (2004).
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Table B2. YFP Activities During the
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