Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series

Youth Mentoring in Contemporary Perspective:

Introduction to the Handbook of Youth Mentoring, Second

Edition

March 21, 2013

2013 Collaborative Mentoring Webinar SeriesPlanning Team

Sarah Kremer, Friends for Youth

Michael Garringer, Education Northwest

Dana Gold, MP of SWPA

Polly Roach, MP of Minnesota

Tammy Tai,MENTOR

Molly Brenner,MENTOR

Meghan Ferns, Oregon Mentors

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David L. DuBois, PhDDavid L. DuBois, PhD, is a Professor in Community Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research examines the contribution of protective factors, particularly self-esteem and mentoring relationships, to resilience and holistic positive development and on translating knowledge in this area to the design of effective youth programs.

Dr. DuBois is lead co-editor of the first and second editions of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring (2005; 2013) and co-author of After-School Centers and Youth Development: Case Studies of Success and Failure (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He consults widely to mentoring programs nationally and internationally.

Michael Karcher, EdD, PhDMichael J. Karcher, Ed.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Counseling at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he coordinates the School Counselor Training Program. He conducts research on school-based and cross-age peer mentoring as well as on adolescent connectedness and pair counseling.

He authored the Cross-age Mentoring Program (CAMP) and conducted one of the first large-scale school-based mentoring studies, the Study of Mentoring in the Learning Environment (SMILE, 2003-2006). Professor Karcher is co-editor of the first and second editions of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring (2005; 2013) and co-edited with Michael Nakkula, Play, talk, learn: Promising practices in youth mentoring (2010).

The Handbook of Youth Mentoring, Second Edition

Table of Contents  I. Introduction

II. Frameworks and Foundations

III. Mentoring Relationships

IV. Cultural Perspectives

V. Programs and Contexts

VI. Special Populations

VII. Practice and Programmatic Considerations

VIII. Conclusions

The Handbook and Practitioners

The Handbook and Policymakers

The Handbook and Mentors

The Handbook and Mentors

Mentoring RelationshipsChapters in “Mentoring Relationships” in the Handbook of Youth Mentoring, Second Edition:

4. Assessing Mentoring Relationships—Michael Nakkula

5. Mentoring Activities and Interactions— Michael Karcher

6. Goals in Mentoring Relationships—Fabricio Balcazar

7. Mentoring Relationships in Developmental Perspective—Gil Noam

8. A Biological Perspective on Positive Adult-Youth Relationships—Amber Allison

9. Social Networks and Mentoring—Thomas Keller

10. Termination and Closure of Mentoring Relationships—Renee Spencer

Cultural PerspectivesChapters in “Cultural Perspectives” in the Handbook of Youth

Mentoring, Second Edition:

11. Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Mentoring Relationships—Bernadette Sanchez

 12. Gender in Mentoring Relationships—Belle Liang 13. Social Class—Nancy Deutsch 14. International and Cross Cultural Aspects in Youth Mentoring—Limor

Goldner

Programs and ContextsChapters in “Programs and Contexts” in the Handbook of Youth

Mentoring, Second Edition:

15. School-Based Mentoring—Carla Herrera 16. After-School Programs—Megan Mekinda 17. Cross-Age Peer Mentoring—Michael Karcher 18. Electronic Mentoring and Media—Carmit-Noa Shpigelman 19. Group Mentoring—Gabriel Kuperminc 20. Work and Service Learning —Stephen Hamilton

Special PopulationsChapters in “Special Populations” in the Handbook of Youth Mentoring,

Second Edition:

21. Academically At-Risk Students —Simon Larose

22. Juvenile Offenders— Wing Yi Chan 23. Youth with Mental Health Needs—David Kerr 24. Youth in Foster Care—Preston Britner 25. Immigrant and Refugee Youth—Dina Birman 26. Children of Incarcerated Parents—J. Mark Eddy

Practice and Programmatic Considerations

Chapters in “Practice and Programmatic Considerations” in the Handbook of Youth Mentoring, Second Edition:

27. Program Funding—Susan Weinberger  28. Mentor Recruitment and Retention—Arthur Stukas 29. Mentor Screening and Youth Protection—Sarah Kremer 30. Mentor and Youth Matching—Julia Pryce 31. Mentor Training—Janis Kupersmidt 32. Family Involvement —Andrea Taylor

33. Program Evaluation—David DuBois 34. Economic Evaluation of Mentoring Programs—E. Michael Foster 35. Ethical Issues in Youth Mentoring— Jean Rhodes

The Role of Risk Study

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Friends for Youth’s Annual Conference

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14th Mentoring Conference

April 18 – 19, 2013Oracle Conference Center

Santa Clara, CA

http://www.friendsforyouth.org/MI-Conference.html

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2013 Collaborative Mentoring Webinar SeriesThank you for participating today!

Topic: Youth-Initiated Mentoring with Drs. Jean Rhodes and Sarah Schwartz (University of Massachusetts-Boston)

Registration will open next week on the MENTOR website.

Sarah Kremer, Friends for Youth

Michael Garringer, Education Northwest

Meghan Ferns, Oregon Mentors

Dana Gold, MP of SWPA

Polly Roach, MP of Minnesota

Tammy Tai,MENTOR

Molly Brenner,MENTOR

Next Webinar: April 25, 2013 (fourth Thursday,

rather than the third)