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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami to Participate in Critical Longterm Study of Mentoring

March 22, 2019/in Announcements /by Courtney Coleman

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami is proud to announce that it is one of 16 Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) affiliates selected to participate in the nationwide “Youth Relationships Study.”  This rigorous study will evaluate the benefits that BBBS mentoring relationships provide to participating youth in several key areas, such as success in school, mental health, and avoidance of risky behaviors.

 

“Research has been a core part of Big Brothers Big Sisters’ success over its 113-year history, and knowing more about how mentoring works will allow us to make mentoring relationships stronger and more effective for the youth we serve,” says BBBSA President and CEO Pam Iorio.

 

The study builds on groundbreaking research conducted in the 1990s that provided evidence of the effectiveness of BBBS mentoring. “As important as that study was, there is a pressing need to understand the present-day benefits of the program and to see if these are lasting over time, which is something the original study did not do,” says Dr. David DuBois, a lead researcher on the study and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

 

“We fully believe in one-to-one mentoring and the impact it can have on the lives of children and in our communities, and we are honored to participate in this study,” said Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami President & CEO Gale Nelson.

 

The “Youth Relationships Study” is a five-year study of the BBBS Community-Based Mentoring program.  Close to 2,000 youth between the ages of 10 and 16 will participate in the study, which began nationwide in early 2018 and will begin locally this spring.

 

Researchers will use a process known as random assignment to place the youth into one of two groups, one of which will participate in the BBBS program during the study. Researchers will follow both groups with the goal of determining how BBBS programming contributes to positive outcomes for youth. “Random assignment is the gold standard when evaluating the effectiveness of programs because it ensures that the two groups being compared are similar to each other at the start of the research,” says Dr. Carla Herrera, the study’s other lead researcher. “It has the added value of being fair because everyone gets the same chance of being part of the program.”

 

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation has awarded $1.7 million in funding to the University of Illinois at Chicago to conduct this research.

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