Mentoring/Cross-age Teaching
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Beyond the Head Count: Evaluating Family Involvement in Out-of-School Time
Author: Caspe, Margaret (1 more by this author); Priscilla Little; Flora Traub
Description: Harvard Family Research Project's (HFRP) Issues and Opportunities in Out-of-School Time Evaluation briefs are short, user-friendly documents that highlight current research and evaluation work in the out-of-school time field. This fourth brief, Beyond the Head Count: Evaluating Family Involvement in Out-of-School Time, offers an overview of how out-of-school time programs involve families and how programs can evaluate family involvement.
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Description: Intergenerational relations refers to any informal interaction between youth and senior adults. A program that brings older generations and younger generations together through letter writing. Children who have a close relationship with their grandparents are less likely to have negative stereotypes of senior adults or fear of growing older.
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: A detailed network for parents including programs, courses, elements, storytime, opinions, and humor regarding parenthood.
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The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Mentoring Relationships 
Author: Sanchez, Bernadette
Description: The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Mentoring Relationships
Dr. Bernadette Sanchez
November, 2007
This 70-minute video presentation is an overview of research about the effects of gender, age, ethnicity and culture on mentoring. Dr. Sanchez provides examples of how these factors may have different influences on outcomes for specific groups of youth.
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Author: Thiel, Erika
Description: Explore: Teens as Mentors offers strategies to successfully develop middle and high school mentors for afterschool programs. Workshop participants will practice activities, discuss challenges of teen recruiting and retention and learn how to empower and engage teens. Explore: Teens as Mentors has been successfully used in a rural afterschool program. Participants will receive materials to develop their own mentor program.
Description: Intergenerational relations refers to any informal interaction between youth and senior adults. A program that brings older generations and younger generations together through letter writing. Children who have a close relationship with their grandparents are less likely to have negative stereotypes of senior adults or fear of growing older.
Just for Kids-Walk in My Shoes
Description: Walk in My Shoes is an activity project that reaches across generations and teaches young people about growing older and the physical changes that occur with age.
Strengthening Mentoring: Opportunities for At-Risk Youth
Author: Cavell , Timothy; Jean Rhodes; Thomas Keller; Michael Karcher; David DuBois
Description: This policy brief examines recent research on mentoring and how it relates to at-risk youth.