Tap into youth and practitioners’ insights with
videos from MENTOR-hosted events.
Black Youth Town Hall
In partnership with Youth Mentoring Action Network, MENTOR co-hosted The Black Youth Town Hall, which was a youth-led community dialogue aimed at supporting young people as they process recent events and the state of race relations.
2024 National Mentoring Summit Plenary 2: Mentoring Black & Brown Girls
Dr. Wizdom Powell at the 2020 National Mentoring Summit
Dr. Powell speaks to the importance of mentors in the lives of youth who’ve experienced trauma, particularly Black youth.
In partnership with the Campaign for Black Male Achievement and My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, MENTOR developed the Essentials training – a training for adults who mentor boys and young men of color. While the training was focused on boys, the topics of race, privilege, social capital, and racial identity are broadly applicable.
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Knowing Thyself: Must Know Me to Build an Effective We Facilitated by Steve Vassor
This virtual training provides a foundational look at race and privilege as it relates to the mentoring relationship. The training will give mentors and mentoring programs processes and tools that allow for reflection into potential biases that may limit success of the mentoring relationship for boys and young men of color. -
Getting to Know you – Let ME meet YOU where you ARE Facilitated by Steve Vassor
This virtual training focuses on the boy or young man in the mentoring relationship and discusses the importance of social capital and racial identity.
The below webinar is aimed at mentoring program staff members or formal or informal mentors who work with or in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities.
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Supporting and Inspiring Native Youth Being culturally respectful and competent is critical to a healthy mentoring relationship. This online module orients mentoring programs and mentors who work with or in American Indian/Alaska Native communities and provides learning opportunities around youth identity and voice.
Dig into research and practice with MENTOR-hosted
webinar conversations and presentations.
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Supporting Young People in the Wake of Violence and Trauma In an effort to help programs foster healthy mentoring relationships throughout traumatic experiences, MENTOR developed a guide in collaboration with the Mental Health Association (MHA) of New York and with support from JPMorgan Chase. In this webinar, panelists review the guide and discuss how they’ve adopted its principles in real life.
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The Best Practices for Running Effective Mentoring Programs for Boys and Young Men of Color This webinar covers best practices for designing effective mentoring services for boys and young men of color, from thought leaders and practitioners. Learn from Dr. Bernadette Sanchez, a thought leader on mentoring as it intersects with race and ethnicity, and Dr. Torie Weiston-Serdan, a mentoring researcher whose Critical Mentoring work emphasizes the value of mentoring as a consciousness-raising social justice intervention, along with mentoring practitioners Tommy McClam of Open Buffalo and Diego Romero of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City.
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Cultural and Class Conflicts in Mentor-Mentee Matches Mentoring practitioners and researchers believe that “cultural and class tension” can be attributed to lack of proper screening, inadequate cultural competency training, deficit thinking by mentors, and micro-aggressions that play out during the mentor-mentee match. Learn from experts as they provide an overview of research on race, culture, and class in mentoring matches and discuss cultural competency training.
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We See You: Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color Through a Racial Equity Lens View the April 2020 CMWS resource ‘We See You: Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color Through a Racial Equity Lens’ here.
MENTOR has been a champion of the book, Critical Mentoring, by Dr. Torie Weiston-Serdan, which provides mentors with a new and essential transformational practice that challenges deficit-based notions of protégés, questions their forced adaptation to dominant ideology, counters the marginalization and minoritization of young people of color, and endows them with voice, power and choice to achieve in society while validating their culture and values. Dr. Weiston-Serdan offers training and support to organizations looking to transform practices. Visit https://www.criticalmentoring.org/ for more information. You can also request technical assistance around Critical Mentoring through the National Mentoring Resource Center. To request technical assistance related to critical mentoring or anything described here, visit www.nationalmentoringresourcecenter.org