Youth mentoring is the process of matching mentors with young people who need or want a caring, responsible adult in their lives.
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13 Facts About Youth mentoring
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Goals and settings within a mentoring program vary by country because of cultural values.
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One method of determining how effective Youth mentoring relationships have become is with the use of meta-analysis.
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Quantitative analysis shows that academic-based mentoring has stronger associations with outcomes than does general youth mentoring.
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For teachers, Youth mentoring means enhanced skills in supervision and better patience, sense of fulfilment, and increased self-esteem.
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One on one Youth mentoring is seen in programs such as Big Brothers, Big Sisters in The United States, as well as Mentor Me India in India.
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Individual mentor relationships or mixed with some group meetings were found to be more effective than solely group Youth mentoring, found in a study in The New Zealand Journal of Psychology.
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However, Youth mentoring is the most successful when Youth mentoring is built on the shared enthusiasm between mentors and mentees.
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Small group mentoring can be beneficial in places where there is a shortage of mentors, or youth are able to learn collectively in a group setting.
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The research that has been done on gender matching in Youth mentoring relationships has resulted in conflicting findings.
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Youth mentoring takes place around the world, and countries take varying approaches to the concept based on values and needs of that country's youth.
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The mentoring typically takes place in the community in a group setting to create positive relations amongst the youth.
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Informal mentoring is how youths are educated and family traditions, instructions and rituals were passed through generations.
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