RESEARCH, YOUTH JUSTICE NEWS COVERAGE, & MORE!
Welcome to the January 2023 issue of On the Same Page!
In this issue, we feature recent research in the area of youth mentorship to celebrate National Mentoring Awareness Month. In addition, the YJI is excited to share our upcoming February webinar with Dr. Catherine Kimbrell on Tuesday February 7th! Our highlighted evidence-based program this month is Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) Community-Based Mentoring Program. Be sure to check out our Community Corner to read about other recent news from the new year so far!
Feeling smart? Take the quiz at the bottom of this issue for a chance to win a prize!
|
|
|
|
|
|
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
NEW YORK
"Governor Hochul Announces $1.5 Million in Federal Funding to Three Communities for New Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Pilot Project,” Governor’s Press Office, 1/13/20
(Read it here)
OTHER STATES
California
"Partnership Launched to Eliminate Incarcerating ‘Girls,’ Gender-Expansive Youth,” 1/20/23
(Read it here)
Texas
"Texas teens embark on an idealistic quest to shut down the state’s last five youth prisons," Texas Tribune, 1/18/2023
(Read it here)
NATIONAL
“Did a Fourth Grader Write This? Or the New Chatbot?” NY Times, 12/26/22
(Read it here)
"Their Mothers Were Teenagers. They Didn’t Want That for Themselves,” NY Times, 12/31/22
(Read it here)
"Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All,” NY Times, 1/9/23
(Read it here)
INTERNATIONAL
Kenya
"How to Help Girls Enduring the Unendurable,” NY Times, 1/14/23
(Read it here)
|
|
|
NYS MENTORING DASHBOARD
Check out the YJI's Mentoring Dashboard featuring youth mentoring programs in New York State. Programs are organized by County, Program Goal, Targeted Age Range, County, Delivery Style, and Program Length. Clicking on a program will direct you to key information and its website.
This dashboard is a collaborative effort between the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the NYS Youth Justice Institute (YJI), and we hope that it is a tool that families, practitioners, and community members can utilize to find targeted mentoring programs in their area.
Click below to visit the dashboard!
|
|
|
CRIMINOLOGY OF THE MONTH: KEY TERM SERIES
DEVELOPMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY
Developmental Criminology focuses on how age and environment impact risks for offending and antisocial behavior and are particularly concerned with continuity and change throughout life (Farrington, 2018). These studies are often longitudinal in that they follow individuals over a notable amount of their lives to better capture how age and life events impact behavior and risks for harm.
|
|
|
COMMUNITY CORNER
Process Matters: Reflections from the Development of Harris County’s Youth Justice Community Reinvestment Fund and Recommendations to Guide Future Efforts
“A new report from Columbia Justice Lab’s Youth Justice Initiatives, Process Matters: Reflections from the Development of Harris County’s Youth Justice Community Reinvestment Fund and Recommendations to Guide Future Efforts, describes how Harris County created a first-of its-kind Youth Justice Reinvestment Fund in Texas earlier this year.” Read it here.
|
|
|
Congratulations to Bonita Gibb, the winners of our November quiz!
In November, the quiz question was, “Which subpopulation is at high risk for homelessness among youth?”
The correct answer was C , 1 out of 8.
Try again with this month’s new quiz question below and email us your answer. Be quick!
|
|
|
|
|
RESEARCH - JANUARY 2023
Parnes, M. F., Herrera, C., Keller, T. E., Tanyu, M., Jarjoura, G. R., & Schwartz, S. E. O. (2023). Formal youth mentoring relationships in the context of risk: What is the role of caregiver–mentor collaboration? Journal of Community Psychology, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22990
How does collaboration between caregivers and mentors impact outcomes for youth? Parnes and colleagues investigate this relationship among 2,165 young people in formal mentoring programs.
Luedke, C. L., Collom, G. D., & Henderson, T. N. (2023). Developing a culture of mentoring: promoting, experiencing, and engaging in mentoring through a transitional undergraduate research program for students of color. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 0(0), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2023.2164991
A new study from Luedke et al. (2023) investigates mentorship in a college bridge program for first-year undergraduate students from historically marginalized backgrounds and provides an initial model of how to create a culture of mentoring.
Herrera, C., DuBois, D. L., Heubach, J., & Grossman, J. B. (2023). Effects of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Community-Based Mentoring Program on social-emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes of participating youth: A randomized controlled trial. Children and Youth Services Review, 144 (n/a). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106742
Herrera and colleagues consider the impact of the BBBSA Community-Based Mentoring Program on youth between 9 and 14 years old in several urban areas on the west coast.
Denner, J., & Torres, D. (2023). How Natural Mentoring is Used by Latinx Youth at a Community Technology Center. Journal of Latinos and Education, 22(1), 339-356. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15348431.2020.1763351
Denner & Torres (2023) explore how natural mentoring is utilized by Latinx youth at a community-based organization. Their findings describe the motivations, strategies, and ideologies of the adults in informal learning settings, as well as similarities and differences in the perspectives of the mentors and mentees.
|
|
YJI RACIAL EQUITY & YOUTH JUSTICE MICROSITE
The YJI's Racial Equity & Youth Justice microsite offers youth and community justice partners a curated and living array of relevant national and YJI-developed racial justice resources and research. The selected tools are meant to provide concrete supports that empower, instruct, motivate, and inspire all of us as we further the still urgent work of eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in youth justice systems. We invite you to explore the wide-ranging resources included (e.g., guides, toolkits, webinars, podcasts, scholarly articles, etc.) and to contribute to this site by nominating resources for future inclusion. Nominations can be emailed to youthjustice@albany.edu.
The YJI offers many thanks to the YJI Scholars who led and guided the development of this site from inception to launch.
|
|
|
LUNCH & LEARN WEBINAR WITH DR. CATHERINE KIMBRELL
Dr. Catherine Kimbrell, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University will be presenting at our next Lunch & Learn webinar session on Tuesday, February 7 at 12pm ET. She will discuss the results from the most current systematic review on the effectiveness of restorative justice programs and practices in juvenile justice, focusing on delinquency and non-delinquency outcomes.
|
|
|
SPOTLIGHT ON
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA (BBBS) COMMUNITY-BASED MENTORING PROGRAM
The BBBS Community-Based Mentoring Program provides one-on-one mentoring for at-risk youth between the ages of 6 and 18. The goal of this program is to reduce risk factors for negative behavior by implementing positive adult contact for youth to overcome various adverse experiences. See our Evidence-Based Programs and Practices in Youth Justice Clearinghouse for more information on this and other ranked evidence-based practices.
|
|
|
|
|
|
