Youth initiated mentoring: Promoting and improving the social networks of youth with complex needs in the Netherlands
Youth-Initiated Mentoring (YIM) is a novel approach in which youth nominate a natural mentor from their existing social network. This person is positioned as a YIM, who can function as an ally to the youth and a partner for parents and professionals working with the youth. The YIM approach can be considered as a hybrid approach integrating formal and informal child educators, in which the focus is on empowering the juvenile's network through the positioning of and collaboration with an informal mentor, designated as a YIM. This informal mentor is a person (e.g. relative, neighbour, or friend)... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Part of book |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Schlagwörter: | Taverne |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28790062 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/414604 |
Youth-Initiated Mentoring (YIM) is a novel approach in which youth nominate a natural mentor from their existing social network. This person is positioned as a YIM, who can function as an ally to the youth and a partner for parents and professionals working with the youth. The YIM approach can be considered as a hybrid approach integrating formal and informal child educators, in which the focus is on empowering the juvenile's network through the positioning of and collaboration with an informal mentor, designated as a YIM. This informal mentor is a person (e.g. relative, neighbour, or friend) adolescents nominate from their own social network, who functions as a confidant and spokesman for the adolescent, and as a cooperation partner for parents and professionals. This chapter describes the YIM-approach, the theoretical model, different applications, and preliminary support for its effectiveness.