Six years ago, Evan Thurman was in a place of hopelessness, and the people in his life were talking about institutionalizing him. They were frustrated with the then 12-year-old boy and felt like giving up. That was when his mentor, Phil Dietz, came into his life. Since then, Evan has moved from receiving intensive mental health treatment and education at a restrictive school setting to excelling in academics and his personal life.
Mentoring is an effective intervention for behavioral change in kids considered at-risk. Some have said that mentoring children with complex needs can't be done, but 4Results Mentoring's programs are telling another story. 4Results, run by Columbia River Mental Health Services (CRMHS) in Vancouver, Washington, serves children who face significant mental health problems, a population often not served by mentors. While mentoring is a timeless tradition, only recently has it been formalized as an evidence-based practice. 4Results' programs are modeled after MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership's Elements of Effective Practice for both school- and community-based mentoring.
Most of the children CRMHS sees are …
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