Block C will take place on Thursday the 19th of March from 11:30h to 13:00h.
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Most mentoring organizations aim to develop a meaningful relationship between two strangers. This type of mentoring, that is, formal mentoring, comes with inherent difficulties such as a lack of volunteers, problems in the development of trust or early relationship break down. Youth-initiated mentoring is an innovative, hybrid form of mentoring, that may offer solutions to some of these difficulties.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Scientific
THEME FIELD: Research-Practice
WHO? Natasha Koper and Suzanne de Ruig
This session will explore mentoring in Ireland that specifically targets youth involved in the juvenile justice system and youth in care of the state. We pose the question: How can youth organisations and research institutions work in partnership to ensure quality outcomes for youth presenting with higher levels of risk.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Methodologies and Ethics
WHO? Mary Lynch, Dr. Bernadine Brady & Prof. Caroline McGregor
LGBTQ youth often face specific challenges as they navigate through adolescence. In addition, they are at increased risk of experiencing homelessness and are disproportionately represented in juvenile justice and child welfare systems in comparison to straight and cisgender peers. Given these experiences, there is a great need to better understand how to intentionally create safe and affirming services that can respond to these risks and improve outcomes.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Gender
WHO? Christian Rummell
Youth with a history of maltreatment are at risk for mental health, behavioral, and social problems, resulting in adverse life-course outcomes. Innovative interventions are needed to mitigate the risk for poor outcomes. Fostering Healthy Futures (FHF) is a mentoring and skills training program for preadolescent children who have been maltreated and placed in foster care.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Scientific
THEME FIELD: Methodologies and Ethics
WHO? Heather Taussig
After three years of very good experiences in a research-practice partnership to assess the impact of mentoring with a mixed methods approach (including participatory elements) we asked ourselves: 1) What are the most important learnings that made this partnership so successful? 2) What is the added value of research-practice partnership for mentoring organizations on the one hand and researchers on the other hand?
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Socio-cultural diversity
WHO? G. Amoruso, F. Amoruso-Stenzel & S.K. Häseler-Bestmann
Quality mentoring includes two different project presentations in English:
THE ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE-PRACTICE (US)
THEME FIELD: Research-practice
WHO? Janis Kupersmidt
MC CERTIFICATE ON QUALITY MENTORING (SPAIN)
THEME FIELD: Research-practice
WHO? Mar Avedaño
Today more than 100 thousand Ukrainian children live in orphanages and institutions and grow up in a limited social environment. For older orphaned and abandoned children who emancipate from state institutions, caring adult mentors can help with developing essential life skills, emotional literacy, workforce readiness, finding internships and jobs, and improve their economic self-sufficiency. For this vulnerable youth, Kidsave has developed the Pathways to Success Program, which combines Individual and Corporate Mentoring.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Methodologies and Ethics
WHO? Tatiana Stafford
Developing a model of research-practice partnership involving researchers and practitioners is necessary to shed some light on what practices and discussions may improve the effectiveness of such programs. However, it is known that partnerships could bring disagreements and dissents on the researched topic. In this session, the partnership is outlined as a process that could reconcile potentially conflicting goals.
! This presentation will only last 45 minutes.
LANGUAGE: English
TYPE: Scientific
THEME FIELD: Research-practice
WHO? Xavier Alarcon & Núria Martínez
The present workshop aims at sharing some considerations to understand the meaning of adopting a Human Rights-based approach to social mentoring as an ethical and practical safeguard. This approach assumes that HHRR instruments can be used as analytical, operational and methodological tools in any activity with social implications that involves persons, citizens, young people, children.
LANGUAGE: Spanish
TYPE: Practical
THEME FIELD: Methodologies and Ethics
WHO? Alba Pi & Júlia Pàmies
This workshop will present the results of two different projects that work with youngsters under government protection (from foster care homes) in Spanish. Izeba project will share results in terms of improving the wellbeing of the minors, while Sapere Aude Project will share their results in terms of improving the educational results.
LANGUAGE: Spanish