Mentoring Central: Mobile and Web Training for Mentees and their Caregivers

指导中心：针对受训者及其照顾者的移动和网络培训

• 批准号: 8592609
• 负责人: JANIS B KUPERSMIDT
• 金额: $ 16.44万
• 依托单位: INNOVATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8592609
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adult; Affect; Alcohol consumption; American; Area; Attention; Attitude; Behavioral; Caregivers; Caring; Child; Chronic; Cognition; Communication; Consumer Satisfaction; Control Groups; Country; Development; Development Plans; Devices; Effectiveness; Etiology; Evaluation; Evaluation Studies; Evidence based practice; Failure; Family; Family member; Feasibility Studies; Feedback; Focus Groups; Frequencies; Friendships; Funding; Goals; Growth; Health; Individual; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Length; Life; Light; Literature; Longevity; Mentors; Methods; Motivation; Multimedia; Outcome; Parents; Performance; Personal Computers; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Physical activity; Preparation; Prevalence; Problem behavior; Psychological reinforcement; Public Health; Randomized; Randomized Controlled Trials; Recording of previous events; Relative (related person); Reporting; Resources; Risk; Risk-Taking; Role; Safety; Schools; Social Perception; Societies; Structure; Tablets; Technology; Time; Training; Training Programs; Work; Writing; Youth; base; birth control; caregiver education; college; commercialization; design; evidence base; expectation; experience; gang; high school; improved; innovation; interactive multimedia; meetings; member; premature; prevent; programs; prototype; psychologic; public health relevance; reduced substance use; rural area; satisfaction; self esteem; skills; social; usability; volunteer; web-accessible

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Training mentored youth and their caregivers to work together successfully with their mentor and mentoring program is critically important for achieving a safe, high-quality, sustained mentoring relationship, and for obtaining positive youth outcomes. Training for mentees and their caregivers is considered a best practice in the field of mentoring; however, many programs struggle to provide them with systemic and adequate training experiences. This may explain the challenges that some mentors report in their relations with the caregivers of their mentees, which include communication breakdowns, unexpected termination of the relationship, boundary violations, and misuse of power. Training in these areas can provide families with the skills, knowledge, and cognitions needed to develop a strong relationship with their mentor and mentoring program staff members. Given the negative impact of prematurely terminated relationships, programs report a great need for figuring out ways to sustain and support mentoring relationships, and training mentees and their caregivers is one critically important strategy. Through advances in mobile technology and the rise of internet and mobile technology use, there now exists an opportunity to provide innovative and accessible web and mobile-based training resources for parents and youth across the country, including those living in rural areas. The overall goal of the proposed project is to use an iterative proces to develop training for mentees and their caregivers that is accessible via Internet, tablet, and smartphone devices. The finished project will include a multimedia, interactive course designed for family members to complete together. The course content will address topics such as defining mentoring, explaining the importance of training, the benefits of mentoring, common motivations and expectations for mentoring, roles of everyone involved in a mentoring relationship, child safety and boundaries issues, and preparing for the first match meeting. Caregivers and mentees will be able to utilize downloadable tip sheets to help guide conversations with the mentor and mentoring program staff. A complete set of mobile applications for mentees and caregivers to use in training are planned for development. Commercialization of the proposed product will be facilitated through our connections with leaders in the field of youth mentoring and the rising demand from the field for this type of resource. In Phase I, three focus groups will be conducted with mentors, mentees, and their caregivers. They will provide feedback on program content and methods. A One-to-One Evaluation study with five mentee/caregiver dyads will provide feedback on program usability and consumer satisfaction. Finally, a Feasibility Study will be conducted to examine the short-term effectiveness of the training for mentees and caregivers for improving their attitudes and knowledge regarding preparing for a mentoring relationship and to obtain consumer satisfaction feedback.

描述（由申请人提供）：培训受指导的青少年及其照顾者与他们的导师和指导计划成功合作对于实现安全、高质量、持续的指导关系以及获得积极的青年成果至关重要。对受训者及其照顾者进行培训被认为是指导领域的最佳实践；然而，许多项目很难为他们提供系统和充分的培训经验。这也许可以解释一些导师在与学员照顾者的关系中遇到的挑战，其中包括沟通障碍、关系意外终止、侵犯边界和滥用权力。这些领域的培训可以为家庭提供与其导师和指导计划工作人员建立牢固关系所需的技能、知识和认知。鉴于过早终止关系的负面影响，项目报告非常需要找出维持和支持指导关系的方法，而培训受训者及其照顾者是一项至关重要的策略。通过移动技术的进步以及互联网和移动技术使用的兴起，现在有机会为全国各地的父母和青少年（包括生活在农村地区的青少年）提供创新且易于访问的网络和移动培训资源。拟议项目的总体目标是使用迭代过程为学员及其护理人员开发可通过互联网、平板电脑和智能手机设备访问的培训。完成的项目将包括一个多媒体互动课程，专为家庭成员一起完成而设计。课程内容将涉及诸如定义指导、解释培训的重要性、指导的好处、指导的共同动机和期望、参与指导关系的每个人的角色、儿童安全和边界问题以及为第一场比赛做准备等主题。会议。护理人员和学员将能够利用可下载的提示表来帮助指导与导师和指导计划工作人员的对话。计划开发一套完整的移动应用程序，供学员和护理人员在培训中使用。通过我们与青年辅导领域领导者的联系以及该领域对此类资源不断增长的需求，将促进拟议产品的商业化。在第一阶段，将由导师、受训者及其照顾者进行三个焦点小组讨论。他们将提供有关计划内容和方法的反馈。一项由五名受训者/护理人员二人组成的一对一评估研究将提供有关计划可用性和消费者满意度的反馈。最后，将进行可行性研究，以检验受训者和护理人员培训的短期有效性，以提高他们对准备指导关系的态度和知识，并获得消费者满意度反馈。