Are youth mentoring programs good value-for-money? An evaluation of the Big Brothers Big Sisters Melbourne program

Marjory Moodie; Jane Fisher

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-41

Are youth mentoring programs good value-for-money? An evaluation of the Big Brothers Big Sisters Melbourne program

Marjory Moodie, Jane Fisher

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Abstract

Background The Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) program matches vulnerable young people with a trained, supervised adult volunteer as mentor. The young people are typically seriously disadvantaged, with multiple psychosocial problems. Methods Threshold analysis was undertaken to determine whether investment in the program was a worthwhile use of limited public funds. The potential cost savings were based on US estimates of life-time costs associated with high-risk youth who drop out-of-school and become adult criminals. The intervention was modelled for children aged 10a??14 years residing in Melbourne in 2004.

Original language	English
Article number	41
Number of pages	9
Journal	BMC Public Health
Volume	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-41
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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