Our data is so promising that the National Institutes of Health is conducting a five year impact study. The preliminary results show that children in Friends with the most aggressive behavior and those with the most anxiety, improved the most in their 1st year at Friends.

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

Structuring Mentoring Relationships for Compentency, Character and Purpose
Jean E. Rhodes and Renée Spencer
New Directions for Youth Development, 126, 149-152
2010

First Do No Harm: Ethical Principles for Youth Mentoring Relationships
Jean E. Rhodes, Belle Liang, and Renée Spencer
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Vol. 40, No. 5, 452-458
2009

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 forYouth 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