Mentoring young people leaving care 'Someone for me'
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Date | Published - 2005 |
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Publisher | Joseph Rowntree Foundation |
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Place of Publication | York |
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Original language | English |
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An exploration of longer term mentoring for young people leaving care.
This report describes young people's experiences of mentoring relationships and their outcomes. The researchers looked at on-going or concluded relationships that had lasted between six months and three years.
The report:
- outlines the participating projects, including the different types of mentoring relationships - traditional adult or peer mentoring,
- analyses 181 mentoring relationships, profiling the young people and their mentors, describing their planning and goal setting and the outcomes of mentoring,
- explores the mentoring process in-depth through interviews with 17 young people and their mentors, examining both the processes involved and what young people and their mentors saw as 'making a difference'.
Young people leaving care face the challenges of transition to adulthood, often without consistent support from their families. This report concludes that mentoring offers them a different style of supportive relationship but one which complements formal professional support.
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