Multi-site trial: Mentoring
Multi-site trials
In progress
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Project name:
Mentoring Multi-Site TrialFunding:
£561,496Evaluation type:
Efficacy study
Activity Type:
Mentoring
Setting:
Community
Evaluators:
Bryson Purdon Social Research, Centre for Evidence and Implementation, The Centre for Youth Impact
About the project
Mentoring matches children and young people with mentors who provide guidance and support. The YEF’s Toolkit shows that mentoring is likely to have a moderate impact on reducing violent crime. But there is little high-quality UK evidence, especially on delivery by grassroots organisations.
The YEF funding initially saw 10 small organisations that deliver mentoring recruited to take part in a feasibility study of the multi-site RCT. This will inform the roll-out of a subsequent pilot RCT evaluation involving up to 20 small organisations, delivering mentoring to approximately 1,000 children and young people over the course of a year.
The delivery partners for the multi-site trials of mentoring practice are:
- Act for Change
- Buddy Up
- Dame Kelly Holmes Trust
- Emerge (UK) Company Ltd
- Education and Skills Development Group
- Enthusiasm Trust
- Getaway Girls
- Mancroft Advice Project (MAP)
- Media Academy Cymru
- NAOS (Bristol) CIC
- Positive Youth Foundation
- Power2
- Reaching Higher
- SOFEA
- Switch Midlands CIC
- The Trust for Developing Communities (TDC)
- The Welsh Association of Youth Clubs (Youth Cymru)