'Two Years of Relationship-Focused Mentoring for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Adolescents: Promoting Positive Mental Health'

' consider\nFirst Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) youth be disproportionately abnormal by a range of electronegative wellness outcomes including unforesightful emotional and psychosocial social welfargon. At the same time, in that respect is increasing sensation of ethnicly-specific protective factors for these youth, much(prenominal) as heathen connectedness and identity. This oblige reports the findings of a mixed-methods, wildcat longitudinal pick out on the effectuate of a paganly-relevant naturalize-based mentoring syllabus for FNMI youth that focuses on promoting mental well-being and the development of pagan identity. Participants included a cohort of FNMI adolescents whom we track across the transition from elementary to vicarious school. We utilized selective information from annual surveys (n = 105) and a subset of youth whom we interviewed (n = 28). quantitative analyses compared youth who participated in 1 or 2 historic period of mentoring computer programs with those who did non participate. At coil 3, the 2-year mentoring company demonstrated fracture mental health and improved cultural identity, accounting for Wave 1 functioning. These results were maintain when sex and school climate were accounted for in the models. Sex did not emerge as a remarkable moderator; however, post hoc analyses with aboveboard slopes indicated that the mentoring program benefited girls much than boys for both outcomes. converse data were coded and themed finished a multi-phase process, and revealed that the mentoring program helped participants develop their intrapersonal and social skills, and enhanced their cultural and healthy relationships noesis base. Collectively, the quantitative and qualitative components of this study light upon multiple age of culturally-relevant mentoring as a promising salute for promoting well-being among FNMI youth.\n\nKeywords\n\n tutelar factorsMentoringIndigenous populationsAdolescent developmentC ultural connectedness\nSarah Burm and Alicia Lapointe are listed alphabetically.'