{"id":50,"date":"2016-01-24T18:12:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T01:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2016-01-24T21:38:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T04:38:01","slug":"mentorship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/goal-alignment\/mentorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mentorship is an effective way to foster resiliency in at-risk youth. It comes as no surprise that having a reliable adult to talk to can make a huge difference in a teenager&#8217;s life. <a title=\"Alessandri, M., Foster, S., Keating, L. M., &amp; Tomishima, M. A. (2002). The effects of a mentoring program on at-risk youth. Adolescence, 37(148), 717+.\">A study performed in 2002<\/a> showed that after 6 months, teenagers in a mentorship program were quite noticeably less depressed, less withdrawn, less anxious, and less aggressive than they had been before.<\/p>\n<p>Mentorship is time consuming, but it is effective. If you know a youth who could benefit from a mentor, look up mentorship programs in your city and see if it&#8217;s an option. Mentorship programs vary in intensity, but even a small amount of interaction with a positive role-model can benefit a youth. Teachers and parents are often extremely busy, but they should always try to make time if they\u00a0know a teenager\u00a0who could benefit from having somebody to talk to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentorship is an effective way to foster resiliency in at-risk youth. It comes as no surprise that having a reliable adult to talk to can make a huge difference in a teenager&#8217;s life. A study performed in 2002 showed that after 6 months, teenagers in a mentorship program were quite noticeably less depressed, less withdrawn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35100,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/74"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/goalsetting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}