A parent's place: Parents', mentors' and program staff members' expectations for and experiences of parental involvement in community-based youth mentoring relationships |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Office E4610, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA;2. Arizona State University, PO Box 873701, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA;3. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 733N, Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA;4. Children''s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;1. Social and Epidemiological Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 100 Collip Circle, Suite 200, ON, Canada N6G 4X8;2. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L8;3. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2R3;4. Laval University, Montreal, PQ, Canada G1V 0A6;5. York University, Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3;6. University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada N9B 3P4;7. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608, United States;8. Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Pue. 72000, Mexico;9. Western University, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C1;1. Boston University, United States;2. Tufts University, United States;3. America''s Promise Alliance, United States |
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| Abstract: | Youth mentoring has been conceptualized largely as a dyadic relationship between a mentor and mentee, with less attention paid to the role of parents. This study contributes to an emerging body of research on parent involvement by examining expectations for parents' roles in the mentoring process held by program staff, mentors, and parents themselves. In-depth interviews with mentoring program staff (n = 12), mentors (n = 30), and a parent or guardian of the youth being mentored (n = 30) were analyzed to identify these participants' views on the role of parents. Findings indicate that mentors and program staff were more aligned in their views and tended to be more focused on the ways that parents could potentially interfere with or otherwise disrupt the mentor–youth relationship. Parents' views were more varied and rooted in differences in both their individual values and beliefs about the role of a mentor in their child's life, their parenting styles and ways they expected adults outside of the family who were interacting with their child to engage with them. Implications for future research on parent involvement and for mentoring program practices are discussed. |
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