Mentoring U

A summary of the 2016 Mentoring at the White House

Adults can create ideal mentoring scenarios that help and support young people hone community involvement

Just as patients are more likely to adopt healthy behaviors when provided with support from their social networks, mentees can be supported and guided by their mentors in a similar fashion

Research has found that people who believe societies and individuals are capable of change cooperate much better with each other. With this in mind, mentors can help foster mentees’ willingness to engage and cooperate with people from other groups just by reminding them of the potential for groups to change.

This study highlights the importance of taking youth risk and mentor characteristics into account

Mentors can facilitate discussions concerning the realities of unrealistic social media.

Research exploring the relationship between the frequency and pattern of traditional vs modern forms of communication among adolescents and the evolution of social competencies in their relationships

Caring adults can help foster autistic talent.

Research highlights ways to build strong adult-youth ties in both formal and informal mentoring relationships

College students who have one or more teachers take an interest in them experience improvements in academic and career outcomes.

This article contains practical breathing exercises and other approaches to empower youth to work through their own stress

In this short piece, the American Psychological Association offers 5 self-care tips for coping with holiday stress

New research supports the beneficial outcomes for youth with strong non-parental, adult relationships.

Is mentoring effective in supporting these youth, the factors that affect outcomes, the depth to which mentoring has been adopted in mental health fields and the possibilities for taking such work “to scale.”

A look at why schools are embracing broader forms of formal and informal mentoring networks.

Youth exiting the foster care system are especially at risk and are in need of trustworthy, committed adults to mentor them through this tough transitional stage.

A concise description of Experimental Design, Experimental and Control Groups, Random Group assignment and Quasi-Experiments as they pertain to gathering data on the effectiveness of Mentoring.

Jean Rhodes imagines a new kind of reality show where parents of privilege attempt to bridge the economic and opportunity gap to help less privileged students navigate the Post Secondary school system

Research has shown that mentoring can provide a strong boost to a student's self-perception of their own academic abilities and the value they place on academic success.

A series of 19 studies on the effectiveness of mentoring for black male youth are summarized in this ten minute review.

Author and Researcher Jean Rhodes reflects on how the importance of youth mentoring has become even more important in the past fifteen years as wealth and opportunity inequality continue to grow.

Self-criticism is a trait that has been shown to lead to numerous forms of psychopathology: depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and bipolar disorder symptoms

A new study illustrates that supporting youth as they engage with and overcome mild online risks will help them build the foundations they will lean on in the future when faced with more stressful online and real life situations.

Dr. Jean Rhodes remembers the teachers and mentors who helped her define and achieve her goals

A new study illustrates how trust, empathy and a caring connection are prerequisites for lifelong success and learning

Just as jury duty is mandatory to ensure justice for all, mentoring duty should be mandatory to support basic human development.

Chapter 191 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, Fareed Zakaria, an Indian-born American journalist, author and host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS recalls the two men who provided a world of inspiration in his childhood.

Chapter 3 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, Iranian journalist and television host, Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour reflects on the lessons her strict riding instructor taught her and how those lessons prepared her for life.

Chapter 16 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, American comedian, writer, actress, and a co-host on the ABC daytime talk show The View, Joy Behar reflects on the guiding women of her life

Chapter 89 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, widely traveled American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator, Pete Hamill explains how the heroes of literature can be valuable mentors in the absence of the flesh and blood kind.

Chapter 57 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and social activist, Ossie Davis looks back on the highschool teacher and acting mentor who helped shape his life

Chapter 69 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman, an Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honour awardee, Gloria Estefan credits her intuitive relationship with her grandmother for her musical success.

Chapter 101 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, Tony nominated and Obie award winner, an american actor of television, stage and screen, Anne Jackson examines the importance of teaching.

Chapter 114 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, Dr. Mathilde Krim, AIDS research pioneer and who, along with Elizabeth Taylor founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research speaks about the teachers who anchored her young life.

Chapter 190 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, contemporary American realist painter and son of Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth discusses his art and culture mentor, Lincoln Kirstein

Chapter 183, of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, Stanley Tucci, American actor, writer, film producer and film director, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Lovely Bones, and won an Emmy Award for his performance in Winchell, recalls his father's emphasis on the importance of art.

Chapter 172 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, American actor and activist, Martin Sheen, who achieved fame with roles in the films Badlands and Apocalypse Now celebrates the memory of his three important mentors.

Chapter 1 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo's book: The Person Who Changed My Life, actor, director, screenwriter, and author, Alan Alda discusses how his mentor taught him to distinguish the person from the behaviour and to test assumptions.

In chapter 103 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo’s book: The Person Who Changed My Life, Tony, Golden Globe and, Emmy award winning actor, James Earl Jones, speaks about the teacher that helped him find his voice and lose his stutter.

Chapter 41 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo’s book: The Person Who Changed My Life, politician, former Governor of Arkansas and the 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton reflects on important advice and teachings from his southern roots and Nelson Mandela.

Chapter 92 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo’s book: The Person Who Changed My Life, actress, Marcia Gay Harden star of the CBS medical drama ‘Code Black’ and recurring character in the ABC drama ‘How to Get Away with Murder’, peers back over her life of success remembering all those who played a part in the formation of who she is today.

In chapter 126 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo’s book: The Person Who Changed My Life, United States Senator, Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 and a prisoner of the Vietnam War, John McCain, remembers the teacher who provided him with the idealism he admired and emulated.

A conversation with Dr. Jim Kooler on mentoring programs to meet the challenges of youth, Jim’s career has focused on helping youth become active leaders and resources in their communities. He is the administrator of the California Friday Night Live Partnership, the highly successful youth engagement program that is widely regarded as a landmark state-mentoring program. He has also served as deputy director of the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs and director of the Governor’s Mentoring Partnership in California. Jim holds a BA in psychology and a Masters and Doctorate in Public Health from UC Berkeley.

What is the state of mentoring in the U.S. today? What does the landscape look like? What are one or two of the important trends driving mentoring right now? And what can you, the listener, do to impact mentoring for the better? Vince Reardon's guest is uniquely qualified to answer these and many more pressing questions about mentoring. He is David Shapiro, the president and CEO of MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. MENTOR is the unifying champion for expanding quality youth mentoring relationships in the United States. For 25 years, MENTOR has served the mentoring field by providing a public voice, developing and delivering resources to mentoring programs nationwide and promoting quality for mentoring through standards, cutting-edge research and state of the art tools.

How do you get ahead in your career? Some employees go back to college to get an advanced degree. Others seek out challenging, high-profile work assignments. While these are sensible career moves, commendable career moves, they aren’t opened to many employees. Fortunately, more and more companies today are identifying promising, ambitious employees and offering them mentoring programs to promote their career development.

How do you start and build a cross-cultural mentoring program? When we think of mentoring programs in the workplace, we tend to think of programs that carefully match mentors and mentees who share some or a lot of cultural similarities. But there’s another approach to mentor/mentee matching and that is identifying and pairing mentors and mentees who cross different cultures, such as mentors and mentees who come from different races, genders, ethnicities, religions, cultural backgrounds, socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientations, or nationality. Listen to my interview with Jodi Davidson, Director of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives at Sodexo.

Interview with retired CEO Walter Green who traveled across the U.S. and thanked 44 men and women who had a positive influence in his life.

Interview with Dr. Mary Fernandez, president of MentorNet, a division of Great Minds in STEM, on how mentoring can bridge the "opportunity gap" among low-income minorities and women pursuing the American Dream.

Host Vince Reardon interviews guest Wendy Murphy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management at Babson College, on the importance of creating strategic relationships at work through sponsors, mentors and peers.