Mentoring For Us

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A community-based research project dedicated to understanding and sharing what mentoring looks like for girls and women of color. - Youth mentoring research has been a monolith; focusing primarily on data sets from formalized programs and by proxy, the young people attracted to those programs. The knowledge about mentoring, how it works, who it works for and why it works, stems from these foundational studies and has informed sets of standards and training curriculums that continue to guide the field. As more attention is paid to issues of equity, mentoring and the researchers who study it, re ...

Read More quire a more nuanced understanding of what mentoring is and how it operates in the lives of various types of marginalized youth. In order to contribute to the evolving field of mentoring research and practice, this project will engage women of color in a study of the mentoring experiences of women and girls of color. 

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