Conversations About Masculinity: How Mentors Can Support Young Men of Color

Conversations About Masculinity: How Mentors Can Support Young Men of Color is a research-backed and youth-informed guide to unpack the timely and critical topic of toxic masculinity. Our collective understanding of gender is evolving, and how we understand masculinity is evolving with it. With this guide, mentoring programs, practitioners, and mentors can reflect on their experiences, biases, and assumptions to more effectively leverage their strengths and the power of mentoring to support young people.

Masculinity Guide

Informed by research, practice, and the experiences of young men from JPMorgan Chase’s The Fellowship Initiative, Conversations About Masculinity provides practical tips to support the development of relationships that encourage young men to explore expressions of masculinity to serve healthy decision making, self-development, and care for others. This report was made possible by generous support from The Fellowship Initiative at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Action Research Associates, and Vibrant Emotional Health.


We thank JPMorgan for making this work possible and for being a leader in growing youth mentoring.


Guide to Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color

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