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

'Abstract\n offshoot Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) younker are disproportionately affected by a turn tail of negative health outcomes including poor emotional and psychosocial upbeat. At the aforesaid(prenominal) time, there is increase awareness of culturally-specific tutelar factors for these early daysfulness, such as cultural association and identity. This article reports the findings of a mixed-methods, exploratory longitudinal regard on the effects of a culturally-relevant school-based mentoring course for FNMI youth that focuses on promoting psychic well-being and the growing of cultural identity. Participants include a cohort of FNMI adolescents whom we tracked crosswise the transition from easy to secondary school. We use entropy from yearly surveys (n = 105) and a subset of youth whom we interviewed (n = 28). Quantitative analyses compared youth who participated in 1 or 2 years of mentoring programs with those who did not participate. At wind 3, the 2-year mentoring group show better moral health and meliorate cultural identity, score for Wave 1 functioning. These results were maintained when kindle and school clime were accounted for in the models. sex did not come forth as a significant moderator; however, stigmatize hoc analyses with simple slopes indicated that the mentoring program benefited girls more than boys for both(prenominal) outcomes. Interview data were coded and themed through a multi-phase process, and revealed that the mentoring program helped participants organize their intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, and intensify their cultural and rosy-cheeked relationships knowledge base. Collectively, the quantifiable and qualitative components of this study identify sixfold years of culturally-relevant mentoring as a burnished approach for promoting well-being among FNMI youth.\n\nKeywords\n\nProtective factorsMentoringIndigenous populationsAdolescent developmentCultural connection\nSarah Burm and Alicia Lapointe are listed alphabetically.'