Youth initiated mentoring: Promoting and improving the social networks of youth with complex needs in the Netherlands

Levi van Dam, Ellis ter Beek, N. Koper

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMentoring Children and Young People for Social Inclusion
Subtitle of host publicationGlobal Approaches to Empowerment
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter5
Pages64-93
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9780429345951
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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