Campus Connections is a multidisciplinary service learning course at CSU where undergraduate students serve as mentors to youth. Students from over 90 majors work one-on-one with youth ranging from 11-18 to tackle a broad range of challenges. Youth may be referred by family members or our community partners, and work with mentors to establish goals for positive growth.
Student mentors spend four hours once a week with their mentee in a group setting to provide academic support and career planning, encourage positive social skills development, assist with goal setting, and implement wellness programming. Strong bonds are developed over the 12 week program between mentors and mentees. Graduate-level family therapists and experienced mentors serve as coaches to provide support and guidance for undergraduate mentors during Campus Connections.
The program aims to prevent delinquency and recidivism, while addressing relevant correlates (e.g., substance use) and promoting important protective factors (e.g., academic success). If you are interested bringing Campus Connections to your community, please contact Toni Zimmerman at: Toni.Zimmerman@ColoState.edu.
This project was funded by the William T. Grant Foundation as part of a 3 year data collection project in an effort to better improve outcomes of at-risk adolescents. This project is focused on understanding and evaluating the differences between a "family" based mentorship style and the classic dyadic one-on-one mentorship family style. More information on the family-based mentorship style may be read here.
This repository is managed by Neil Yetz, MPH and the code works directly with the William T. Grant funded data collection which began in the Fall of 2015 and is set to finish (for a total of 3 years, 6 semesters) at the end of the Spring of 2018 semester.
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Please send questions and correspondences regarding the code and output in this repository to Neil Yetz, MPH at ndyetz@gmail.com.
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