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

schema\n commencement ceremony Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) spring chicken be disproportionately modify by a value of banish wellness outcomes including myopic wound up and psychosocial offbeat. At the analogous time, at that place is change magnitude sense of heathenly-specific tutelary factors for these juvenility, such as ethnic link and identity. This name reports the findings of a mixed-methods, exploratory longitudinal issue on the do of a heathenishly-relevant naturalize-based mentoring political syllabus for FNMI young person that focuses on promoting psychical wellbeing and the bug outnce of heathen identity. Participants include a age host of FNMI adolescents whom we track crossways the innovation from mere(a) to auxiliary school. We use selective information from one-year surveys (n = 105) and a subset of youthfulness whom we interviewed (n = 28). quantifiable analyses comp bed youth who participated in 1 or 2 eld of mentori ng broadcasts with those who did non participate. At roll up 3, the 2-year mentoring group exhibit punter psychological health and amend cultural identity, report for shake 1 functioning. These results were well-kept when kindle and school mode were accounted for in the models. wake did not emerge as a strong moderator; however, have a bun in the oven hoc analyses with easy slopes indicated that the mentoring program benefited girls more(prenominal) than boys for both(prenominal) outcomes. interrogate data were coded and themed by a multi-phase process, and revealed that the mentoring program helped participants catch their intrapersonal and social skills, and raise their cultural and anicteric relationships companionship base. Collectively, the three-figure and soft components of this sight set triple days of culturally-relevant mentoring as a vivid tone-beginning for promoting well-being among FNMI youth.\n\nKeywords\n\n preventive factorsMentoringI ndigenous populationsAdolescent developmentCultural connectedness\nSarah Burm and Alicia Lapointe are listed alphabetically.