Employing Near-Peer Mentorship to Promote Wellness: The Perceived Impact on Urban Indigenous Youth Mentees and Indigenous College Student Mentors
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This study examines the perceived impact of a “near-peer” mentorship program on the well-being of Indigenous adolescents in San Francisco and their Indigenous college student mentors at Stanford University. As previous research has focused primarily on “near-peer” mentorship in the context of medical education, little is known about how this form of mentorship can be used in youth programs. Furthermore, few studies use an Indigenous model of well-being to evaluate the effectiveness of Indigenous youth programs. The current study utilizes a qualitative research design to investigate the perceived impact of this form of mentorship between individuals in high school and college, on the participants’ well-being. Data were collected using grounded, semi-structured in-person interviews and a final sample population of 6 adolescent mentees, and 5 undergraduate mentors, all of whom self-identified as Indigenous, were analyzed. Thematic analysis revealed that Indigenous adolescent mentees perceived the program to positively impact their well-being in three of the quadrants of Cross’ (1997) model of Indigenous wellness: context, mind, and body, and failed to address the spirit quadrant. Indigenous college students that served as mentors for the Native Mentorship in Public Health’s “near-peer” mentorship program perceived the program to impact their well-being in three of the quadrants of Cross’ (1997) model of Indigenous wellness: mind, body, and spirit. However, unlike the mentees, the perceived impact in the mind and spirit quadrant for the mentors was negative, and the context quadrant was not addressed. With greater support for mentors within the context quadrant, the near-peer mentorship model discussed in this paper could serve as a successful approach to promoting comprehensive well-being amongst Indigenous college and high school students.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | May 31, 2017 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Juliussen, Audrey A. |
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Subjects
| Subject | “near-peer” |
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| Subject | mentorship |
| Subject | Indigenous adolescents |
| Subject | Indigenous college students |
| Subject | well-being |
| Subject | qualitative research |
| Subject | Indigenous wellness |
| Subject | youth program |
| Subject | Graduate School of Education |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Juliussen, Audrey. (2017). Employing Near-Peer Mentorship to Promote Wellness: The Perceived Impact on Urban Indigenous Youth Mentees and Indigenous College Student Mentors. Unpublished Honors Thesis. Stanford University, Stanford CA.
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