In a continued effort to provide current information on mentoring and youth development, we have designed our new Research section.

The titles below access related research publications. For the research that Friends was founded on, click here.

Improving Youth Mentoring Interventions Through Research-based Practice
Jean E. Rhodes
American Journal of Community Psychology, 41, 35-42
2008 

Mentoring Relationships and Programs for Youth
Jean E. Rhodes and David DuBois
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 254-258
2008

Youth Mentoring: Improving Programmes Through Research-based Practice
Jean E. Rhodes and Sarah Ryan Lowe
Youth & Policy, No. 99
Spring 2008

Youth Mentoring and Spiritual Development
Christian Chan and Jean E. Rhodes
New Directions in Youth Development, 118, 85-89
2008

Effectiveness of Mentoring Program Practices
David DuBois
Research in Action, Issue 2
2007

A Model for the Influence of Mentoring Relationships on Youth Development
J Rhodes, R Spencer, T Keller, B Liang and G Noam
Journal of Community Psychology, 34, 691-701
2006

Research Methodology and Youth Mentoring
D DuBois, F Doolittle, B Yates, N Silverthorn and J Kraemer Tebes
Journal of Community Psychology, 34(6), 657-676
2006

Youth mentoring: Bridging Science with Practice
David DBois and Jean E. Rhodes
Journal of Community Psychology, 34, 547-565
2006

Natural Mentoring Relationships and Adolescent Health: Evidence From a National Study
David DuBois and Naida Silverthorn
American Journal of Public Health, 93(3), 518-524
March 2005