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NCJ Number: 251379 Find in a Library
Title: Interim Report for the Evaluation of a Cross-age Peer Mentoring Program for Youth in High Violence Chicago Communities
Document: PDF
Author(s): Maryse Richards; Katherine Tyson McCrea; Catherine Rice Dusing; Cara DiClemente; Kyle Deane; Dakari Quimby
Date Published: November 2017
Annotation: This study examined the impacts of the current cross-age peer mentoring program called Saving Lives, Inspiring Youth (S.L.I.Y.) in seven high-violence sites in Chicago.
Abstract: S.L.I.Y. is designed to improve resilience and reduce aggression and other behavioral problems for disadvantaged youth living in low-income, high-violence communities. S.L.I.Y.’s 142 high school students have mentored 159 middle school students from the same communities. Each mentor is recruited, trained, supervised, and paid. Operating for about a year at each site, mentoring pairs have met once a week for an hour of mentoring and then an hour of debriefing. The current study examined the program’s impacts through four waves of data collection. Overall, the strength of the mentoring relationship by 9-12 months significantly predicted increased self-esteem among mentees and increased negative attitudes toward gangs and gang membership, as well as trending toward decreased aggression. Boys who attended more sessions reported an increase in positive future expectations. Girls with stronger mentoring relationships also reported significantly lower positive perceptions of gangs and gang membership. For mentors, the program also apparently promoted positive effects, particularly for mentoring boys, who indicated reduced depression and anxiety, as well as reduced delinquent behavior and aggression. Girls, however, did not show similar reductions in problem behaviors, but more attendance among girls predicted increasing perceptions of support. Data were collected from 182 participants (mentors, N=96 and mentees, N=86). 9 tables, 8 figures, and 32 references
Main Term(s): Juvenile delinquency prevention programs
Index Term(s): Illinois; Juvenile Mentoring Programs; Mentoring; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP); OJJDP final report; Peer influences on behavior; Positive peer culture
Grant Number: 2014-JU-FX-0003
Sponsoring Agency: Loyola University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60626
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Washington, DC 20531
Corporate Author: Loyola University of Chicago
United States of America
Sale Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
US Dept of Justice
810 Seventh Street NW
Washington, DC 20531
United States of America
Page Count: 28
Format: Document; Document (Online)
Type: Program/Project Description; Program/Project Evaluation; Report (Grant Sponsored); Report (Study/Research); Research (Applied/Empirical)
Language: English
Country: United States of America
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