title: Development of cities mentor project: an intervention to improve academic outcomes for low-income urban youth through instruction in effective coping supported by mentoring relationships and protective settings.
abstract: This manuscript summarizes an iterative process used to develop a new intervention for low-income urban youth at risk for negative academic outcomes (e.g., disengagement, failure, drop-out). A series of seven steps, building incrementally one upon the other, are described: 1) identify targets of the intervention; 2) develop logic model; 3) identify effective elements of targets; 4) vet intervention with stakeholders; 5) develop models for sustaining the intervention; 6) develop measures of relevant constructs currently missing from the literature; 7) assess feasibility and usability of the intervention. Methods used to accomplish these steps include basic research studies, literature reviews, meta-analyses, focus groups, community advisory meetings, consultations with scholarly consultants, and piloting. The resulting intervention provides early adolescents in low-income urban communities with a) training in contextually relevant coping, b) connection to mentors who support youth's developing coping strategies, and c) connection to youth-serving community organizations, where youth receive additional support.
authors: a Department of Psychology , DePaul University , Chicago , Illinois , USA.
authors: Kathryn E
authors: KE
authors: Grant
authors: Farahnaz
authors: F
authors: Farahmand
authors: David A
authors: DA
authors: Meyerson
authors: David L
authors: DL
authors: Dubois
authors: Patrick H
authors: PH
authors: Tolan
authors: Noni K
authors: NK
authors: Gaylord-Harden
authors: Alexandra
authors: A
authors: Barnett
authors: Jordan
authors: J
authors: Horwath
authors: Jackie
authors: J
authors: Doxie
authors: Donald
authors: D
authors: Tyler
authors: Aubrey
authors: A
authors: Harrison
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: Johnson
authors: Sophia
authors: S
authors: Duffy
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D011203:Poverty; D016730:Program Development; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: academic outcomes; behavioral and emotional outcomes; behavioral, emotional, and social outcomes; intervention development; social outcomes; students; urban poverty; urban poverty or academic outcomes