Co-Design in Action: How the New Jersey Department of Children and Families' Youth Council Led the Work to Envision, Develop, and Evaluate a Peer Mentoring Program for Youth in Foster Care.

This paper describes the process by which the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF) and its Youth Council--a body of youth with lived experience in the child welfare system--conceptualized, developed, and evaluated a peer mentoring program, EnlightenMENT. Additionally, through in-dept...

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Publicado en:Child Welfare Vol. 103; no. 4; pp. 133 - 162
Autores principales: Marsh, Jonathan, Lilleston, Pamela, Bourgault, Katie, Connor, Blake, Gagliano, Nancy, Curran, Stephanie, Guarda, Daniela, Borden, Jessica, Altomari, Emel, Moore, Brianna
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Publicado: Child Welfare League of America 2025
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          Gagliano, Nancy
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          Guarda, Daniela
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      ab: This paper describes the process by which the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF) and its Youth Council--a body of youth with lived experience in the child welfare system--conceptualized, developed, and evaluated a peer mentoring program, EnlightenMENT. Additionally, through in-depth interviews with peer mentors themselves, themes emerged highlighting the experiences of peer mentors working in EnlightenMENT: (a) motivations for mentoring, (b) perceived benefits of mentoring, and (c) perceived challenges of mentoring.
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