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All posts tagged "mentors"
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3.5K► ReportsMentoring for Preventing and Reducing Substance Use and Associated Risks Among Youth
The National Mentoring Resource Center recently published this comprehensive review of the most effective mentoring practices for the prevention and reduction of...
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3.4KGuest Opinion EssayThese Connections Are Currency; Some Young People Need Our Help to Form Them
The other day I attended a diversity training at work. The facilitator talked about who and how we hire. She said something...
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3.2KGuest Opinion EssayHow Ohio’s Restore Court Focuses on Helping Sex Trafficked Youth
Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) has recently received much needed attention, but is by no means a new issue. Researchers have...
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3.7KGuest Opinion EssayFoster Kids Need Consistent, Caring Adult — a Full-time Mentor
Imagine if we could give every child in foster care a consistent, caring adult who walked alongside them for 12½ years, no...
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2.6KGuest Opinion EssayMentoring Graduation Coaches Needed for Mass. Students
Massachusetts is considered a leader in education in the country, with the highest standardized test scores and some of the best public...
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4.6KGuest Opinion EssayHow to Find, Retain High School Students As Peer-to-peer Mentors
In a perfect world there would be a mentor for every teen who wanted one. There would be more for those teens...
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6.5KGuest Opinion EssayMichigan Can Do Better Helping Foster Youth When They Age Out
Michigan is considered to have one of the better foster care systems in the country. One of its major differences is when...
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1.0KVideosThe Mentorship Experience
Youth workers share stories of a time when they helped a young person through difficulty in this mashup video from the 2016...
