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

' pinch\nFirst Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) youth atomic number 18 disproportionately stirred by a range of prejudicial health outcomes including low-down emotional and psychosocial wellbeing. At the same time, thither is increasing sensory faculty of ethnicly-specific protective factors for these youth, such(prenominal) as pagan connectedness and identity. This member reports the findings of a mixed-methods, searching longitudinal sketch on the personal effects of a heathenly-relevant give instruction-based mentoring architectural plan 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 introduce across the innovation from elementary to unessential school. We utilized information from annual surveys (n = 105) and a subset of youth whom we interviewed (n = 28). vicenary analyses compared youth who participated in 1 or 2 geezerhood of mentoring comp uter programs with those who did non participate. At wrap 3, the 2-year mentoring pigeonholing demonstrated fail mental health and improved cultural identity, accounting for Wave 1 functioning. These results were maintain when sex and school climate were accounted for in the models. Sex did not emerge as a important moderator; however, post hoc analyses with primary slopes indicated that the mentoring program benefited girls more(prenominal) than boys for both outcomes. consultation data were coded and themed by a multi-phase process, and revealed that the mentoring program helped participants develop their intrapersonal and social skills, and enhanced their cultural and healthy relationships noesis base. Collectively, the quantitative and qualitative components of this study list multiple years of culturally-relevant mentoring as a promising accession for promoting well-being among FNMI youth.\n\nKeywords\n\nprotective(p) factorsMentoringIndigenous populationsAdolesce nt developmentCultural connectedness\nSarah Burm and Alicia Lapointe are listed alphabetically.'