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Older adult mentors and youth at risk — challenges for intergenerational mentoring programs in family-centered cultures
Author(s)	M Angeles Molpeceres, Sacramento Pinazo, Rafael Aliena
Journal title	Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, vol 10, no 3, 2012
Publisher	Routledge, 2012
Pages	pp 261-275
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Young people ; At risk ; Advocacy ; Age groups [elderly] ; Projects ; Pilot ; Spain ; Evaluation.
Annotation	This article poses some preliminary reflections about the viability of youth mentoring schemes in family-centred cultural contexts based on a pilot experience developed in Spain within the framework of a project aiming to train older adults as youth mentors in five European countries. After an introduction to the field of intergenerational mentoring, a description of the pilot programme follows, with special attention paid to the development of the Spanish local project. Drawing on the project evaluation, some open questions are posed regarding (a) the optimal institutional framing for an intergenerational mentoring programme and (b) the challenge with social representation of the mentor role. (JL).
Accession Number	CPA-121214252 A
Classmark	SB: CA3: IQ: BB: 3E: 4UC: 76S: 4C
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