Understanding How Mentoring Can Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline and Promote Positive Youth Development

了解辅导如何扰乱从学校到监狱的流程并促进青少年积极发展

• 批准号: 2234344
• 负责人: Tia Andersen
• 金额: $ 40.36万
• 依托单位: University of South Carolina at Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234344&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; How; Mentoring; Disrupt; Prison

The school-to-prison pipeline is a metaphor used to describe the ways in which educational policies and practices funnel youth out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice system. Exclusionary school discipline, such as school expulsion, is an important component of the school-to-prison pipeline and associated with youth drop out, delinquency, and justice system contact. Mentoring interventions for expelled students may represent a key, untapped potential lever of change for preventing and reducing risk behaviors, while promoting positive youth development, and disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline from a midstream vantage. However, research is needed to determine the most effective structure of mentorship programming for this population of youth. The research will be conducted on participants in the University of South Carolina Adolescent Mentoring Program (USC AMP). Developed in 2017, USC AMP is a university-community partnership program that matches trained university student mentors who are planning to pursue a career in a criminal justice, human services, or law-related field with youth who have been expelled from their traditional high school and currently attend a disciplinary alternative school. To explore whether alternative school-based mentoring programs promote positive youth outcomes, the researchers will use a mixed methods experimental design and draw upon quantitative survey data and qualitative interview data collected from mentor-mentee pairs. The researchers will evaluate differences in 9- and 18- month educational, vocational, and delinquency outcomes between expelled students receiving one-on-one mentoring alone and those receiving a supplemental structured curriculum. The researchers will also examine the impact of the mentorship experience on the university student mentors, particularly their perceptions of cognitive, personal, and interpersonal skill growth. This project will advance the scientific understanding of the impact of mentoring programs and has the potential to provide a scalable blueprint for reducing the school-to-prison pipeline and illuminate a curricular experience that allows undergraduate students to move beyond skill competency to develop emotional intelligence, personal, and interpersonal professional skills. This project is jointly funded by the Law & Science, and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

从学校到监狱的管道是一个比喻，用来描述教育政策和做法如何将青年从公立学校引导到少年和刑事司法系统。排他性学校纪律，如学校开除，是从学校到监狱的一个重要组成部分，与青少年辍学、犯罪和司法系统接触有关。对被开除学生的辅导干预可能是预防和减少危险行为的一个关键的、尚未开发的潜在变革杠杆，同时促进积极的青年发展，并从中游优势扰乱从学校到监狱的管道。然而，需要进行研究，以确定为这一青年群体制定导师方案的最有效结构。这项研究将在南卡罗来纳大学青少年指导计划(USC AMP)的参与者中进行。USC AMP开发于2017年，是一个大学和社区合作项目，旨在为计划在刑事司法、公共服务或法律相关领域从事职业生涯的训练有素的大学生导师与被传统高中开除并目前就读于纪律替代学校的年轻人牵线搭桥。为了探索替代的校本辅导计划是否会促进积极的青少年结果，研究人员将使用混合方法的实验设计，并利用从导师-被辅导者对收集的定量调查数据和定性访谈数据。研究人员将评估单独接受一对一指导的被开除学生和接受补充结构课程的学生在9个月和18个月的教育、职业和犯罪结果方面的差异。研究人员还将考察导师经历对大学生导师的影响，特别是他们对认知、个人和人际技能成长的看法。该项目将促进对辅导计划影响的科学理解，并有可能为减少从学校到监狱的管道提供可扩展的蓝图，并阐明允许本科生超越技能能力发展情商、个人和人际专业技能的课程体验。该项目由法律与科学和既定的激励竞争研究计划(EPSCoR)共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。