Bigs in Blue: Police officer mentoring for middle-school students—Building trust and understanding through structured programming

Karen Miner-Romanoff

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2023, vol. 97, issue C

Abstract: Clashes and tragedies between the police and citizens in recent years have focused greater attention on the increasingly negative interactions between community police officers and youth. The purpose of this paper is to describe the extensive evaluation of a New York City police mentoring program, Bigs in Blue (BIB), a component of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. The evaluation will measure the success of the program with middle-school youth throughout the districts. Through police mentorship, BIB is intended to build youth’s skills and development and promote their trust in the police. The design is grounded in evidence-based studies of youth/officer programs. This paper describes the logic model, goals, program implementation, and comprehensive plans for quantitative and qualitative evaluation.

Keywords: Disadvantaged youth; Mentee; Mentor; Middle school; Police officer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2023.102227

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