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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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Contact information:
1020 Michigan Building
220 Bagley Street
Detroit, MI 48226

 

Website: www.vipmentoring.org

 

Mission/Goals: The mission of VIP Mentoring is to facilitate and support the use of volunteers as mentors in juvenile and criminal justice. The program goals are to curb recidivism, reduce school truancy, improve school performance, decrease school dropout, and curtail substance abuse.

Sources: www.guidestar.org; www.vipmentoring.org

 Over 1,500 annually 6-19 years old Please click here for more information on this evaluation.

 

Type of Evaluation: Outcomes Monitoring.

 

Objective: To obtain meaningful data from adolescents who are referred for mentoring services to help describe the benefits that mentoring has on participating youth.

Impact/Outcome Findings: Comparisons of the POSIT and Follow Up POSIT show that after participation in the VIP mentoring program, scores for participants showed a statistically significant improvement in the domains of substance abuse, peer relationships, and aggressive behavior/delinquency. Scores also improved in the domains of mental health, peer relations, educational status, and family relations, but were not statistically significant. Only 22 youth provided data on school grade point average (GPA), so results cannot be generalized. Nonetheless, there was a general trend toward improved academic performance between the pre- and post- measures of reported GPA.

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