Metro Denver Partners

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Metro Denver Partners

Approach
Out of School/ Summer	Mentoring	Tutoring	Counseling/ Therapy	School-based	Clinic/ Provider-based	Service/ Vocational learning	Parent or family component	Other
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Outcomes
Educational/ Cognitive	Social/ Emotional	Life Skills	Physical Health	Behavior Problems	Reproductive	Citizenship	Mental Health
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Background Information

Program size

Age range

Research

Program Fee?

Contact information:
701 South Logan Street
Suite 109
Denver, CO 80209

Website: www.metrodenverpartners.org

Mission/Goals: Metro Denver Partners aims to foster long-term supportive and prosocial relationships between youth and their adult mentors to prevent juvenile delinquency, drug and alcohol use, and child abuse and neglect, and promote positive youth development and academic success.

Sources: www.guidestar.org; www.metrodenverpartners.org

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Please click here for more information on this evaluation.

Type of Evaluation: Outcomes Monitoring.

Note: This evaluation is for Colorado and includes the city of Denver.

Objective: To examine whether participation in the program changed youth behaviors and attitudes.

Impact/Outcome Findings: Youth showed a decrease in delinquency, while few significant differences were found for the substance abuse measures (it should be noted use rate was already low at pretest). Youth reported improved self-esteem after participating in the program and an increased sense of attachment to an adult other than a parent or relative.

No fee

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