Mentoring young people leaving care – Someone for me

Authors: Clayden, Jasmine; Stein, Mike
Publisher: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Summary:
This report explores longer term mentoring and befriending for young people leaving care. More specifically, it describes young people’s experiences of mentoring relationships and their outcomes, that lasted between six months and three years, or had ended, between two and four years earlier.

The report begins by outlining the participating mentoring and befriending projects, including their main approaches to mentoring – traditional adult or peer mentoring – and the different types of mentoring relationships. This provides the context for an analysis of 181 mentoring relationships, profiling the young people and their mentors, describing their planning and goal setting, as well as the outcomes of
mentoring.

The report concludes that for young people leaving care, who are coping with the challenges of transition to adulthood, often without consistent support from their families, mentoring offers them a different but complementary relationship from formal professional support.

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