Program Overview

Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring

The Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring is a program that focuses on effective match support and closure practices in youth mentoring programs.

2016 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring

The 2016 Summer Institute focused on effective match support and closure practices in youth mentoring programs.

Effective Match Support and Closure

The 2016 Summer Institute explored effective match support and closure practices in youth mentoring programs.

2016 Research Fellows

The 2016 Research Fellows included:

• Thomas Keller, Ph.D., Director of the Summer Institute and Duncan and Cindy Campbell Professor for Children, Youth, and Families with an Emphasis on Mentoring and Director of the PSU Center for Interdisciplinary Mentoring Research.
  • Professor Keller studies the development of mentoring relationships and their impact on youth outcomes.
• Elizabeth Raposa, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the College of William and Mary.
  • Dr. Raposa's research investigates how early life stressors influence a youth's access to and behavior in close relationships, and how mentoring programs can address the needs of youth living in stressful contexts.
• Renee Spencer, Ed.D., Professor in the Boston University School of Social Work.
  • Professor Spencer has published influential qualitative studies on the nature and course of successful and unsuccessful mentoring relationships.
• Michael Karcher, Ph.D, Ed.D., Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at University of Texas at San Antonio.
  • Professor Karcher is an expert on cross-age peer mentoring and authored the Cross-Age Mentoring Program (CAMP).
• Antoinette Basualdo-Delmonico, Ph.D., Lecturer in the School of Social Work at Boston University.
  • Dr. Basualdo-Delmonico's research interests are in understanding the role that parents play in youth mentoring as well as the termination and closure of mentoring relationships.

2016 Summer Institute Recap

The 2016 Summer Institute Recap was provided by Michael Garringer of the MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, which detailed the presentations and discussions at the 2016 Summer Institute.