[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-seo-585612-105":3,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":80,"doc-detail-585612-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"ok",{"site_id":7,"language":8,"slug":9,"title":10,"keywords":11,"description":12,"schema_data":13,"social_meta":73,"head_meta":75,"extra_data":77,"updated_unix":79},105,"en","mentoring-youth-violence-prevention-research-findings-and-program-models","MENTORING & YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION - Research Findings and Program Models","","Mentoring is presented as an evidence-based strategy for preventing and intervening in youth violence. Using findings from the CDC and research syntheses, the document highlights the scale and consequences of youth violence and summarizes how mentoring can address multiple risk factors simultaneously. Meta-analytic evidence indicates reductions in aggressive behavior and delinquency, particularly when emotional support is a core component. Program evaluations across the country show measurable improvements in violent outcomes for youth participants and mentees.",{"@graph":14,"@context":72},[15,34,55],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/healthcare/","Healthcare",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/mentoring-youth-violence-prevention-research-findings-and-program-models/585612/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/mentoring-youth-violence-prevention-research-findings-and-program-models/585612.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":42,"@type":43},"Alex Sinclair","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-22","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":22},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",{"@type":56,"mainEntity":57},"FAQPage",[58,64,68],{"name":59,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":61},"How does mentoring help prevent youth violence?","Question",{"text":62,"@type":63},"Mentoring offers flexible, broad support and can address multiple risk and protective factors at once, serving as a prevention and intervention strategy.","Answer",{"name":65,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":66},"What do meta-analytic reviews say about mentoring’s impact?",{"text":67,"@type":63},"Meta-analytic reviews of mentoring studies found positive effects for aggressive behavior and delinquency, with stronger effects when emotional support is included.",{"name":69,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":70},"What evidence is provided from programs in the field?",{"text":71,"@type":63},"Evaluations of programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Becoming a Man, One Summer Plus, and cross-age peer mentoring report reductions in violent-crime arrests, aggression, and delinquent behaviors, compared with control groups.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":74,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":76,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":78,"site_id":7},585612,1792662298,{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":82},"success",[83,87,91,95,100,105,109,114,119,122,126],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":84,"show_sort_weight":85,"slug":86},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":88,"show_sort_weight":89,"slug":90},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":92,"show_sort_weight":93,"slug":94},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":96,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":97,"show_sort_weight":98,"slug":99},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":101,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":102,"show_sort_weight":103,"slug":104},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":106,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},7,40,"healthcare",{"id":110,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":111,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":115,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":121},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":125},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":96,"slug":129},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":131},{"doc_id":78,"user_id":132,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":106,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":22,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":33,"language":139,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":143,"read_time":123},1099523882182,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_6f874abed73319feea01a86fa6f0fab8","MENTORING & YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION  \nIn 2019, the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 8% of youth in grades 9-12 reported being in a physical fight one or more times in the 12 months preceding the survey, with more than 7% reporting being threatened or injured with a weapon on school property. Homicide is the 3rd leading cause of death for young people ages 10-24, and is the leading cause of death for African Americans in this age range. Data from 2014 show that 501,581 young people ages 10 to 24 were treated in emergency departments for injuries sustained from physical assaults. Needless to say, youth violence is a serious problem that can have lasting harmful e􀀞ects on both the perpetrator, the victim, and their family, friends, and communities.  \nStudies have shown that mentoring can serve in both prevention and intervention roles in addressing youth violence. This document discusses these findings and provides examples of successful program models from across the country.  \nRESEARCH BACKGROUND  \nMentoring has long been a staple of juvenile justice and violence prevention e orts.  \n• Going back to its origins over 100 years ago, programmatic mentoring relationships for youth have often been used to combat juvenile delinquency and violence in communities through both prevention that keeps youth engaged in prosocial activity and direct interventions that seek to re-engage young people who have become involved in the juvenile justice system .  \n• Mentoring has long been part of the federal government’s approach to combating youth delinquency and violence. The practice of mentoring is rated as “e􀀞ective” in reducing delinquency outcomes, which include violent o􀀞enses, by The National Institute of Justice’s CrimeSolutions clearinghouse.  \nMentoring can offer comprehensive support to youth at risk for committing violence or victimization, as it can address many risk factors at once.  \n• Mentoring serves as a critical violence prevention strategy by o􀀞ering flexible, broad support to young people on a wide variety of their needs, being one of the few prevention and intervention strategies that can e􀀞ectively address multiple risk and protective factors simultaneously.i  \nMentoring can also be integrated into existing multi-component violence prevention e orts.  \n• Mentoring can be o􀀞ered as a stand-alone service or e􀀞ectively incorporated into multi-component violence prevention frameworks.  \n• Prominent criminologists have noted that mentoring programs may make excellent partners within multi-component crime and violence-prevention initiatives, because their relationship-centric focus fits well within established evidence-based frameworks, such asthe Risk-Need-Responsivity model for o􀀞ender assessment and rehabilitation.  \nRESEARCH FINDINGS  \nMeta-analytic reviews have found that mentoring can reduce aggressive behavior and other indicators of violence.  \n• A meta-analytic review of 39 studies of mentoring found that mentoring had positive e􀀞ects for aggressive behavior (e.g., fighting, bullying) and for delinquency in general. The e􀀞ects were strongest in programs where o􀀞ering emotional support was a key component of the intervention. ii  \nSTUDIES FROM THE FIELD  \n• The Big Brothers Big Sisters program has conducted a number of evaluations of their model that have demonstrated an impact on violent youth behavior:  \n-The 1995 impact study of their community-based model indicated that mentored youth were 33% less likely to have hit someone compared to a control group ofunmentored youth. iii  \n-A 2009 survey of BBBS alumni found that 90% said their relationship with their Big helped them make better choices throughout their childhood; 86% said their relationship with their Big has helped them make better choices throughout their adult life; and 76% said they learned right from wrong from their Big.  \n• An evaluation of Becoming a Man, an intervention for disadvantaged male youth grades 7-10 from high-crime Chicago neighborho","cbCaifRrKuPp7SXq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifRrKuPp7SXq","pdf",1054457,"English","# Research Background\n# Research Findings\n# Studies From the Field","[{\"question\":\"How does mentoring help prevent youth violence?\",\"answer\":\"Mentoring offers flexible, broad support and can address multiple risk and protective factors at once, serving as a prevention and intervention strategy.\"},{\"question\":\"What do meta-analytic reviews say about mentoring’s impact?\",\"answer\":\"Meta-analytic reviews of mentoring studies found positive effects for aggressive behavior and delinquency, with stronger effects when emotional support is included.\"},{\"question\":\"What evidence is provided from programs in the field?\",\"answer\":\"Evaluations of programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Becoming a Man, One Summer Plus, and cross-age peer mentoring report reductions in violent-crime arrests, aggression, and delinquent behaviors, compared with control groups.\"}]","MENTORING & YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION - Research Findings and Program Models | PDF",1792055287]