Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur
fewer offenses during adulthood as a result of the BBBS program
Prävention
One-year match history status (referred to subsequently in this section of the report as OYMHS) was a significant predictor of fewer total number of offenses during adulthood (b = -.251, p < .05). There was also a significant interaction with participant race/ethnicity (p < .05) in prediction of this outcome. Follow-up analyses revealed that OYMHS was a significant predictor of fewer offenses among racial/ethnic minority participants (b = -.546, p < .01).
Beschreibung der Aktivität
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America community-based mentoring program
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America community-based mentoring program. […] A major part of the appeal of mentoring programs directed toward youth from under-resourced backgrounds for practitioners and policy-makers is their widely assumed potential to have enduring beneficial effects on participants’ longer-term developmental trajectories. These anticipated benefits include improved prospects for post-secondary education, employment, reduced likelihood of involvement in problem behavior and the justice system, and enhanced social-emotional functioning and health during adulthood.
USA
teilnehmende Kinder und Jugendliche
Evaluierung der Aktivität
The core sample of interest for the research consists of the 1,138 participants in the randomized controlled trial of the BBBS CBM program conducted by Public/Private Ventures in the early 1990s (Tierney et al., 1995). The complete dataset from the original study was made available to the researchers. The researchers then collected data on post-secondary education participation for all sample members from the National Student Clearinghouse and, for the more than 90% of the sample that could be located through public records searched via Lexis Nexis Accurint, records of arrests during adulthood. An effort was also made to contact as many of the original study participants as possible and engage them in completing a survey, the primary purposes of which were to gather information about adult outcomes (employment, problem behavior/justice system involvement, and various aspects of social-emotional well-being and health broadly defined), juvenile justice system involvement (e.g., arrests), and mentoring relationships (if any) through the BBBS program. Thus far, 296 participants from the original study sample have responded to the survey.
randomized controlled trial of the BBBS program: 1.138 participants own survey: 296 participants
randomized controlled trial of the BBBS program: 1990s own survey: for the purpose of the 2018-study
USA
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