Cities Mentor Project intervention components and timing.

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Description

Cities Mentor Project pairs 6th-grade students attending schools in low-income urban neighborhoods with university mentor-advocates who receive course credit and supervision through a service-learning course. Mentors and mentees attend coping training sessions after-school at partner schools administered by school-affiliated staff from a university-based community mental health center. Mentors connect with teachers and parents for academic advocacy, connect mentees to protective settings at partner community organizations, and practice coping strategies with mentees in real-life situations.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Mentors are required to make at least a two-year commitment to youth
• The program makes an eight-year commitment to youth with the plan to replace mentors as needed

Constraints

• The intervention was developed for low-income urban communities and its transferability had not yet been established

Target Learners

• low-income urban middle school youth

Learning Goals

• coping skills
• academic engagement
• academic achievement
• school completion

Claims

• A truncated three-month pilot of the Cities Mentor Project with 17 intervention and 18 control youth indicates the intervention is feasible, usable, and appreciated by participants. [+W]

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Key Sources

• Grant, K. E., Farahmand, F., Meyerson, D. A., Dubois, D. L., Tolan, P. H., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Barnett, A., Horwath, J., Doxie, J., Tyler, D., Harrison, A., Johnson, S., & Duffy, S. (2014). Development of Cities Mentor Project: An Intervention to Improve Academic Outcomes for Low-Income Urban Youth Through Instruction in Effective Coping Supported by Mentoring Relationships and Protective Settings. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 42:3, 221-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2014.916586

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title	Cities Mentor Project intervention components and timing.
description	Cities Mentor Project pairs 6th-grade students attending schools in low-income urban neighborhoods with university mentor-advocates who receive course credit and supervision through a service-learning course.
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