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Mentoring Structures: Building a Protective Community.

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Miller, Darcy – Preventing School Failure, 1997

Discusses development of community mentoring structures to increase the educational and vocational success of students. Explains the three essential features of successful mentoring: (1) comprehensive, ongoing representation; (2) training; and (3) coordinated service provision. (DB)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Services, Mentors, Program Development

Mentoring African American Youth.

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Townsel, Kim T. – Preventing School Failure, 1997

This discussion of issues in the mentoring of African-American youth defines mentoring, identifies elements of successful mentoring, stresses the importance of recognizing existing family and community assets, and urges parental involvement and a program philosophy which affirms the value of resiliency in children surviving in difficult…

Descriptors: Black Students, Definitions, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Philosophy