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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Published in:	Child Welfare Vol. 103; no. 4; pp. 133 - 162
Main Authors:	Marsh, Jonathan, Lilleston, Pamela, Bourgault, Katie, Connor, Blake, Gagliano, Nancy, Curran, Stephanie, Guarda, Daniela, Borden, Jessica, Altomari, Emel, Moore, Brianna
Format:	Article
Published:	Child Welfare League of America 2025
Subjects:	New Jersey Child welfare Work Altruism Human services programs Interprofessional relations Qualitative research Affinity groups Evaluation of human services programs Government agencies Interviewing Mentoring Foster home care State governments Experience Experiential learning Employment Adults Descriptive statistics Thematic analysis Research methodology
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