 Investigating the impact of teenage mentors on pre-school children's development: A comparison using control groupsKirsty Humphrey and Alessandra Olivier Children and Youth Services Review, 2014, vol. 44, issue C, 20-24 Abstract: Teens and Toddlers is the only youth development programme in the UK designed to raise the aspirations of young people by pairing them as a mentor and role model to a child in a nursery who is in need of extra support. This transformative work experience, combined with classroom training, teaches young people interpersonal skills and builds their sense of responsibility in order to enable them to make positive decisions about their education, their health and their future. We undertook research in order to investigate the extent to which the programme has an effect on children attending those nurseries in relation to their sociocognitive development. To date, an evaluation of this kind had not been undertaken for the Teens and Toddlers programme. With the attainment gap ever increasing, the research objective was to evaluate the effect of weekly mentoring from “Teens and Toddlers” participants on pre-school children can positively impact on pre-school children's development. Keywords: Early intervention; Mentoring; School readiness; Communication and language development (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:44:y:2014:i:c:p:20-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.05.018 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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