This is an individual mentoring program for elementary school students. The aim is to improve academic performance, increase school attendance and reduce offending behavior.
The intervention consists of weekly 45-minute sessions during after-school hours. The session follows a curriculum with four sources of self-efficacy (experience of success, social persuasion, learning from good examples, and a tendency toward positive emotional responses) and behavioral changes through motivational interviewing techniques.
The mentors are undergraduate social work and psychology students who have undergone training to apply the mentoring curriculum and the role-play and motivational interviewing tools.