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

' glom\nFirst Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) youth ar disproportionately change by a range of prohibit health outcomes including light emotional and psychosocial well-being. At the same time, thither is increasing awargonness of heathenly-specific protective factors for these youth, such as ethnical connectedness and identity. This article reports the findings of a mixed-methods, explorative longitudinal sketch on the make of a heathenishly-relevant condition-based mentoring syllabus for FNMI youth that focuses on promoting mental well-being and the development of cultural identity. Participants included a cohort of FNMI adolescents whom we bring in across the renewing from elementary to junior-grade school. We utilized information from annual surveys (n = 105) and a subset of youth whom we interviewed (n = 28). numerical analyses compared youth who participated in 1 or 2 geezerhood of mentoring designs with those who did non participate. At curl up 3, the 2-year mentoring mathematical group demonstrated wear mental health and improved cultural identity, accounting for Wave 1 functioning. These results were hold when sex and school climate were accounted for in the models. Sex did not emerge as a monumental moderator; however, post hoc analyses with wide slopes indicated that the mentoring program benefited girls more than than boys for both outcomes. wonder data were coded and themed by dint of a multi-phase process, and revealed that the mentoring program helped participants develop their intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, and enhanced their cultural and healthy relationships cognition base. Collectively, the quantitative and soft components of this study localise multiple historic period of culturally-relevant mentoring as a promising set about for promoting well-being among FNMI youth.\n\nKeywords\n\n tutelary factorsMentoringIndigenous populationsAdolescent developmentCultural connectedness\nSarah Burm and Alici a Lapointe are listed alphabetically.'