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A volunteer mentoring program for 34 years, BeFriend-A-Child provides opportunities for companionship, guidance and support to children who have been abused and neglected or who are at risk of abuse and neglect.

" This is one of the best things I've seen from the County!" Shared by a father about how a BeFriend-A-Child mentor has positively impacted his child's life.

Through mentoring, BeFriend-A-Child hopes to reduce some of the child abuse and neglect "risk factors" - social isolation, lack of support, and family stress; and to enhance various "protective factors" - positive self-esteem, good social skills, hobbies, interests, and good peer relationships. BeFriend-A-Child can also help encourage youth (with strong parental involvement) to make healthy life decisions and to achieve their potential.

By connecting at-risk youth with professionally supported, caring adult mentors, BeFriend-A-Child strives to create a community where children feel more confident and motivated to make informed, responsible life choices and become productive, involved members of the community.

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A volunteer mentoring program for 34 years, BeFriend-A-Child provides opportunities for companionship, guidance and support to children who have been abused and neglected or who are at risk of abuse and neglect. " This is one of the best things I've seen from the County!"

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A volunteer mentoring program for 34 years, BeFriend-A-Child provides opportunities for companionship, guidance and support to children who have been abused and neglected or who are at risk of abuse and neglect.

" This is one of the best things I've seen from the County!" Shared by a father about how a BeFriend-A-Child mentor has positively impacted his child's life.

Through mentoring, BeFriend-A-Child hopes to reduce some of the child abuse and neglect "risk factors" - social isolation, lack of support, and family stress; and to enhance various "protective factors" - positive self-esteem, good social skills, hobbies, interests, and good peer relationships. BeFriend-A-Child can also help encourage youth (with strong parental involvement) to make healthy life decisions and to achieve their potential.

By connecting at-risk youth with professionally supported, caring adult mentors, BeFriend-A-Child strives to create a community where children feel more confident and motivated to make informed, responsible life choices and become productive, involved members of the community.

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A volunteer mentoring program for 34 years, BeFriend-A-Child provides opportunities for companionship, guidance and support to children who have been abused and neglected or who are at risk of abuse and neglect. " This is one of the best things I've seen from the County!"

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Our programming - in partnership with schools and at our centers through 77 local organizations - focuses on the development of the whole girl. A combination of long-lasting mentoring relationships, a pro-girl environment and research-based programming equips girls to lead fulfilling and productive lives, break the cycle of poverty, and become role models in their community.
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Undaunted Futures is a non-profit organization that provides mentoring to underserved youth and fosters life skills development.

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Creating Safe and Affirming Services for LGBTQ youth

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In-person and remote training to transform your organization. Coaching, resources, and connections to strengthen services. In-depth evaluations designed to improve outcomes for young people.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of America - Youth Mentoring

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African-American Mentoring

This program pairs African-American Littles with African-American Bigs who will support them and help them see they can achieve anything they want to in life.

Mentoring Brothers in Action

Mentoring Brothers in Action is a partnership between Big Brothers Big Sisters and the nation's three largest African American fraternities: Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Omega Psi Phi, to engage more African American men in fraternal, social, faith-based, and professional organizations to get involved in one-to-one mentoring to change the odds for African American boys. The Fraternity Collaborative has partnered with a number of Big Brothers Big Sisters local agencies to host "friend raisers," barbershop recruiting drives, Bowl for Kids' Sake fundraisers, and other efforts that have been successful in engaging more African-American men in long-term, professionally supported, outcomes-focused mentoring.

Fraternities Making a Pledge

Big Brothers Big Sisters is fortunate to have the devoted support of three major African-American fraternities. Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Omega Psi Phi have each developed successful initiatives within their brotherhood to get more men involved as both volunteers and donors.

Are you ready to be a positive influence on a child by becoming a volunteer?

TAKE THE FIRST STEP TO INSPIRE POTENTIAL

To get more information about volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters, fill out the form below, and we'll pass along your information to the agency that serves your area. A staff member will contact you about the next steps in the process.

Other Ways to Get Involved

Whether you get involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters as a donor, potential Big Brother or Big Sister, partner, advocate, or family member, you have the power to change a child's future for the better.

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African American - Big Brothers Big Sisters of America - Youth Mentoring

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Guide to Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color

MENTOR and My Brother's Keeper Alliance (MBKA) together sponsored the creation of a guidebook "Guide to Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color." The Guide serves as a supplement to the fourth edition of The Elements of Effective Practice for MentoringTM, and includes additional recommended practices focusing on boys and young men of color (BYMOC). Born from the idea that BYMOC are better served with a targeted set of practices which represent enhancements of those in the original Elements, these additional recommended practices are emergent based on recent research and recommendations from researchers and practitioners in the field. Data shows that boys and young men of color, regardless of socio-economic background, are disproportionately at risk throughout the journey from their youngest years to college and career ( the White House "Fact Sheet ", 2014). This guide is part of an effort to push mentoring programs closer to the cutting edge of research and practice, increasing the rigor of our collective work with mentors and mentees. The practices and resources discussed in this guide will be useful to any mentoring program serving BYMOC and will help them ensure that their services are culturally relevant and effective in changing lives and communities.

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Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color. A Guide | Mentor

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Mentoring t o Manhood (M2M) was founded in 2005 by four men concerned about the plight and limited future of boys in the African American community. M2M provides weekly tutoring, group mentoring activities and family support to more than 150 middle and high school-aged boys. M2M is one of the largest mentoring programs successfully responding to the needs of young boys in Prince George's County.

The Catalogue for Philanthropy annually recognizes high impact, carefully evaluated, community-based nonprofits with budgets below $3 million. Please see an excerpt of their write up on Mentoring to Manhood:

[In 2011] in Prince George's County, only 55% of black males graduated from high school. Change is needed, and Mentoring to Manhood is catalyzing it. A grassroots mentorship nonprofit, M2M offers personal and academic support to African-American middle and high school boys in the county. Read more.

M2M is honored to be among the highlighted network of hardworking nonprofits in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. We are one of many striving to improve Black Male Achievement, and the need for volunteers, mentors, tutors and donations is ongoing.
The work of Mentoring to Manhood is both important and critical to our community. The key elements of the program focuses on insuring that the young male participants have access to attainable educational goals, understand and embrace self-confidence and awareness, and engage in service to Prince George's County and the region. Supporting this program was an easy commitment for me to make because I understand the future, and these young men are our future.
Dr. Charlene Dukes, President, Prince George's Community College

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Mentoring Kings | Mentoring initiativies of black male celebrities

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CELEBRATES MENTORING INITIATIVES AND ACTIVITIES OF BLACK MALE CELEBRITIES, BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS, EDUCATORS, POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY LEADERS. EXPLORING HOW THESE MEN HAVE BECOME MENTORING KINGS. SEEKING TO DISCOVER A SOLUTION, WE REVEAL MEN WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY BUILT THEIR CAREERS FROM THE GROUND…

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Home | Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation

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The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation (SMHF) provides youth outreach services that help cultivate the next generation of responsible leaders by providing educational enrichment, mentoring, life transformation skills, and global service initiatives. The Foundation strives to be a change-agent by fostering excellence in the areas of education, health, and social well-being in urban and diverse communities, ensuring that the needs of the whole child are met.

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Connect With Your Local MBK Community - Obama Foundation

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Our Mission We are multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-generational women and girls of color. We are African Americans, Latinx, Muslim Americans, Asian Americans, immigrants and refugees of color. We believe that collective power is the key to transforming individual lives and the lives of thos ...

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Self love and awareness is critical to the self esteem our brown girls everywhere. We strive to focus on lessons that teaches the importance of confidence and self care. Brown Girls Mentoring is...

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of America - Youth Mentoring

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African-American Mentoring

This program pairs African-American Littles with African-American Bigs who will support them and help them see they can achieve anything they want to in life.

Mentoring Brothers in Action

Mentoring Brothers in Action is a partnership between Big Brothers Big Sisters and the nation's three largest African American fraternities: Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Omega Psi Phi, to engage more African American men in fraternal, social, faith-based, and professional organizations to get involved in one-to-one mentoring to change the odds for African American boys. The Fraternity Collaborative has partnered with a number of Big Brothers Big Sisters local agencies to host "friend raisers," barbershop recruiting drives, Bowl for Kids' Sake fundraisers, and other efforts that have been successful in engaging more African-American men in long-term, professionally supported, outcomes-focused mentoring.

Fraternities Making a Pledge

Big Brothers Big Sisters is fortunate to have the devoted support of three major African-American fraternities. Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Omega Psi Phi have each developed successful initiatives within their brotherhood to get more men involved as both volunteers and donors.

Are you ready to be a positive influence on a child by becoming a volunteer?

TAKE THE FIRST STEP TO INSPIRE POTENTIAL

To get more information about volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters, fill out the form below, and we'll pass along your information to the agency that serves your area. A staff member will contact you about the next steps in the process.

Other Ways to Get Involved

Whether you get involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters as a donor, potential Big Brother or Big Sister, partner, advocate, or family member, you have the power to change a child's future for the better.

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African American - Big Brothers Big Sisters of America - Youth Mentoring

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This program pairs African-American Littles with African-American Bigs who will support them and help them see they can achieve anything they want to in life.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of America - Youth Mentoring

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African-American Mentoring

This program pairs African-American Littles with African-American Bigs who will support them and help them see they can achieve anything they want to in life.

Mentoring Brothers in Action

Mentoring Brothers in Action is a partnership between Big Brothers Big Sisters and the nation's three largest African American fraternities: Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Omega Psi Phi, to engage more African American men in fraternal, social, faith-based, and professional organizations to get involved in one-to-one mentoring to change the odds for African American boys. The Fraternity Collaborative has partnered with a number of Big Brothers Big Sisters local agencies to host "friend raisers," barbershop recruiting drives, Bowl for Kids' Sake fundraisers, and other efforts that have been successful in engaging more African-American men in long-term, professionally supported, outcomes-focused mentoring.

Fraternities Making a Pledge

Big Brothers Big Sisters is fortunate to have the devoted support of three major African-American fraternities. Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Omega Psi Phi have each developed successful initiatives within their brotherhood to get more men involved as both volunteers and donors.

Are you ready to be a positive influence on a child by becoming a volunteer?

TAKE THE FIRST STEP TO INSPIRE POTENTIAL

To get more information about volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters, fill out the form below, and we'll pass along your information to the agency that serves your area. A staff member will contact you about the next steps in the process.

Other Ways to Get Involved

Whether you get involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters as a donor, potential Big Brother or Big Sister, partner, advocate, or family member, you have the power to change a child's future for the better.

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African American - Big Brothers Big Sisters of America - Youth Mentoring

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Mentoring t o Manhood (M2M) was founded in 2005 by four men concerned about the plight and limited future of boys in the African American community. M2M provides weekly tutoring, group mentoring activities and family support to more than 150 middle and high school-aged boys. M2M is one of the largest mentoring programs successfully responding to the needs of young boys in Prince George's County.

The Catalogue for Philanthropy annually recognizes high impact, carefully evaluated, community-based nonprofits with budgets below $3 million. Please see an excerpt of their write up on Mentoring to Manhood:

[In 2011] in Prince George's County, only 55% of black males graduated from high school. Change is needed, and Mentoring to Manhood is catalyzing it. A grassroots mentorship nonprofit, M2M offers personal and academic support to African-American middle and high school boys in the county. Read more.

M2M is honored to be among the highlighted network of hardworking nonprofits in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. We are one of many striving to improve Black Male Achievement, and the need for volunteers, mentors, tutors and donations is ongoing.
The work of Mentoring to Manhood is both important and critical to our community. The key elements of the program focuses on insuring that the young male participants have access to attainable educational goals, understand and embrace self-confidence and awareness, and engage in service to Prince George's County and the region. Supporting this program was an easy commitment for me to make because I understand the future, and these young men are our future.
Dr. Charlene Dukes, President, Prince George's Community College

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Mentoring Kings | Mentoring initiativies of black male celebrities

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CELEBRATES MENTORING INITIATIVES AND ACTIVITIES OF BLACK MALE CELEBRITIES, BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS, EDUCATORS, POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY LEADERS. EXPLORING HOW THESE MEN HAVE BECOME MENTORING KINGS. SEEKING TO DISCOVER A SOLUTION, WE REVEAL MEN WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY BUILT THEIR CAREERS FROM THE GROUND…

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Home | Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation

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The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation (SMHF) provides youth outreach services that help cultivate the next generation of responsible leaders by providing educational enrichment, mentoring, life transformation skills, and global service initiatives. The Foundation strives to be a change-agent by fostering excellence in the areas of education, health, and social well-being in urban and diverse communities, ensuring that the needs of the whole child are met.

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Home | Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation

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The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation (SMHF) provides youth outreach services that help cultivate the next generation of responsible leaders by providing educational enrichment, mentoring, life transformation skills, and global service initiatives. The Foundation strives to be a change-agent by fostering excellence in the areas of education, health, and social well-being in urban and diverse communities, ensuring that the needs of the whole child are met.

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Connect With Your Local MBK Community - Obama Foundation

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ABOUT US

Black Girls Can Inc. is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization empowering black girls and women owning, leading, creating, innovating, and inspiring in their communities and at large.

Black Girls Can Inc. helps foster the next generation of black girls and women into entrepreneurship, STEAM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) and civic engagement by offering free hands-on educational programs, workshops, and events.

Black Girls Can Inc. program offering includes mentoring, self-esteem building, wellness, financial literacy, STEAM simulations, brand building workshops and panels with the intention of enlarging the number of black women entrepreneurs in STEAM fields while cultivating civically engaged black women leaders, tastemakers, and entrepreneurs.

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Since the age of 16, Kenisha C. Dennis has taken a significant interest in the betterment and progression of Black girls by initiating conversations throughout her school, home, and church community. In High school, Kenisha wrote and produced a visual project entitled the Color Struck Mentality. This project highlighted the negative portrayal of black women in the media and its effects within the African American Community. Her high school Senior Exit Project generated an honest conversation among many students which later ignited a healing process for a wealth of black girls at her High School, Repertory High school for Theater Arts.

Feeling inspired, Kenisha later took that vision into her college experience where she worked alongside her sorority members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated to help create, execute and lead workshops and panel discussions surrounding the betterment of the African American community while focusing on the future of black girls with programs like, Redefining the state of Black America, Complexion Obsession, and Emerging Young Leaders - a signature program of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. for middle school girls designed to encourage high scholastic achievement through Leadership Development.

Right out of college, Kenisha started working with inner city youth in Queens, New York as a Dance Teacher for the Police Athletic League. During her time there, Kenisha encouraged her students to pursue their dreams, build their self-confidence through creative arts and guide students to begin to put action behind their goals. Having these experiences gave Kenisha the courage to really make a big impact on a local level.

One evening while researching some of the top issues facing black women in America, Kenisha began thinking of ways to help solve some of those challenges which later cultivated, Black Girls Can Incorporated. Kenisha believed the work to produce, write and create would always be for the betterment and progression of black girls. She believed this was her mission work from God.

By day, Kenisha works as a corporate strategic marketer and works tirelessly by night on Black Girls Can Inc. becoming a top of mind thought leader among black girls and women for educational, professional resources and entrepreneurship development and all things Black Girls' led.

We Can. We Will. We Do.

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Gyrl Wonder is a professional pipeline 501c3 initiative giving rise to ambitious young women of color between the ages of 17 - 22. Our mission is to empower our gyrls through social impact, career exploration and objective alignment. We provide access and resources necessary for them to successfully enter a competitive workforce while teaching them how to leverage these tools to reach their personal and professional goals.
WHO WE SERVE:
Gyrl Wonder equips the young woman who has found her passion with the toolkit necessary to turn her interests into a career. We provide support through career exploration for the young woman who struggles to find a career aligned to her skillset. Both young women receive guidance and access to resources that help propel them into the profession of their choice.
HOW WE SERVE:
Through our programming, community service, mentorship, and flagship initiative, the Gyrl Wonder Leadership Academy, we introduce our young gyrls to purpose exploration that is aligned with their passions and skillsets. We offer internship placement for our college girls, career development for our recent college graduates and resume and interview preparedness workshops to all!

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Gyrl Wonder is a professional pipeline 501c3 initiative giving rise to ambitious young women of color between the ages of 17 - 22. Our mission is to empower our gyrls through social impact, career exploration and objective alignment.

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Gyrl Wonder is a professional pipeline 501c3 initiative giving rise to ambitious young women of color between the ages of 17 - 22. Our mission is to empower our gyrls through social impact, career exploration and objective alignment. We provide access and resources necessary for them to successfully enter a competitive workforce while teaching them how to leverage these tools to reach their personal and professional goals.
WHO WE SERVE:
Gyrl Wonder equips the young woman who has found her passion with the toolkit necessary to turn her interests into a career. We provide support through career exploration for the young woman who struggles to find a career aligned to her skillset. Both young women receive guidance and access to resources that help propel them into the profession of their choice.
HOW WE SERVE:
Through our programming, community service, mentorship, and flagship initiative, the Gyrl Wonder Leadership Academy, we introduce our young gyrls to purpose exploration that is aligned with their passions and skillsets. We offer internship placement for our college girls, career development for our recent college graduates and resume and interview preparedness workshops to all!

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#Powergirls

Sports were part of my family's life, but I didn't play because I didn't know how. PowerPlay taught me how to play. Now, I can't even pick a favorite sport because I like to play them all.

- Sydelcis M., The Young Women's Leadership Schools.

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PowerPlay - Empowering Girls Through Play

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Sports were part of my family's life, but I didn't play because I didn't know how. PowerPlay taught me how to play. Now, I can't even pick a favorite sport because I like to play them all. - Sydelcis M., The Young Women's Leadership Schools.

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Brown Girls Do Ballet® is a division of Brown Girls Do® ., Inc. Our purpose is to promote diversity in the arts by providing annual scholarships, a mentor network, and community programs to empower young girls. Our mission is supported by merchandise sales and fundraisers.

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ORGANIZE AN AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM

Implement the Pretty Brown Girl D.R.E.A.M. Program within your school, focusing on the social, emotional and intellectual well-being of girls of color. Decrease bullying while improving academic achievement and leadership skills with the PBG Program!

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Pretty Brown Girl - Empower A Girl, Empower The World!

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Implement the Pretty Brown Girl D.R.E.A.M. Program within your school, focusing on the social, emotional and intellectual well-being of girls of color. Decrease bullying while improving academic achievement and leadership skills with the PBG Program!

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ORGANIZE AN AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM

Implement the Pretty Brown Girl D.R.E.A.M. Program within your school, focusing on the social, emotional and intellectual well-being of girls of color. Decrease bullying while improving academic achievement and leadership skills with the PBG Program!

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Pretty Brown Girl - Empower A Girl, Empower The World!

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Girls Going Global empowers girls to be global citizens by providing the tools, mentorship, and educational experiences, to make their mark on the world. Learn more about our programs below.

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Girls Going Global - Empowering Global Citizens

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Girls Going Global - Empowering Global Citizens

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The Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network, WEEN, is a dynamic, women-led 501(c)(3) organization focused on molding BIOPIC women into the next generation of impactful leaders and innovators within entertainment, business and tech. Through its signature programming and initiatives, WEEN has impacted the lives of over 80,000 young women worldwide.

THE FOUNDERS

When women join forces and support one another, they are capable of moving mountains. WEEN has embodied this principle from its inception. Bonded in outrage over racist and misogynist comments made by radio personality Don Imus, four friends-Valeisha Butterfield-Jones, Kristi Henderson, Lauren Lake and Sabrina Thompson Mitchell-joined forces and took action in 2007. Frustrated by the lack of representation for women of color across industries, they created and conceptualized WEEN to be a platform where BIPOC women could defend and strategically support one another on a large, unified scale.

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The Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network, WEEN, is a dynamic, women-led 501(c)(3) organization focused on molding BIOPIC women into the next generation of impactful leaders and innovators within entertainment, business and tech. Through its signature programming and initiatives, WEEN has impacted the lives of over 80,000 young women worldwide.

THE FOUNDERS

When women join forces and support one another, they are capable of moving mountains. WEEN has embodied this principle from its inception. Bonded in outrage over racist and misogynist comments made by radio personality Don Imus, four friends-Valeisha Butterfield-Jones, Kristi Henderson, Lauren Lake and Sabrina Thompson Mitchell-joined forces and took action in 2007. Frustrated by the lack of representation for women of color across industries, they created and conceptualized WEEN to be a platform where BIPOC women could defend and strategically support one another on a large, unified scale.

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Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network

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The Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network, WEEN, is a dynamic, women-led 501(c)(3) organization focused on molding BIOPIC women into the next generation of impactful leaders and innovators within entertainment, business and tech. Through its signature programming and initiatives, WEEN has impacted the lives of over 80,000 young women worldwide.

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Young women of color interrupting cycles of poverty & violence through arts-based activism, healing, and peer leadership.

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Young women of color interrupting cycles of poverty & violence through arts-based activism, healing, and peer leadership.

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MENTOR

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OUR VISION

We aim to close the mentoring gap and drive equity through quality mentoring relationships for young people. Potential is equally distributed; opportunity is not. We activate a movement across sectors that is diverse and broad and seeps into every aspect of daily life. We are connecting and fueling opportunity for young people everywhere they are from schools to workplaces and beyond.

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We aim to close the mentoring gap and drive equity through quality mentoring relationships for young people. Potential is equally distributed; opportunity is not. We activate a movement across sectors that is diverse and broad and seeps into every aspect of daily life.

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OUR VISION

We aim to close the mentoring gap and drive equity through quality mentoring relationships for young people. Potential is equally distributed; opportunity is not. We activate a movement across sectors that is diverse and broad and seeps into every aspect of daily life. We are connecting and fueling opportunity for young people everywhere they are from schools to workplaces and beyond.

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We aim to close the mentoring gap and drive equity through quality mentoring relationships for young people. Potential is equally distributed; opportunity is not. We activate a movement across sectors that is diverse and broad and seeps into every aspect of daily life.

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Winning Futures - Mentoring Programs - Empowering youth to succeed through mentoring and strategic planning

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Winning Futures - Empowering youth to succeed through mentoring and strategic planning.

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Winning Futures, an award-winning nonprofit, empowers students through life skills and mentoring programs. Other schools, mentoring programs, and agencies implement our evidence-based life skills and goal-setting curriculum.

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Winning Futures - Mentoring Programs - Empowering youth to succeed through mentoring and strategic planning

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Winning Futures - Empowering youth to succeed through mentoring and strategic planning.

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Winning Futures, an award-winning nonprofit, empowers students through life skills and mentoring programs. Other schools, mentoring programs, and agencies implement our evidence-based life skills and goal-setting curriculum.

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Our Mission We are multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-generational women and girls of color. We are African Americans, Latinx, Muslim Americans, Asian Americans, immigrants and refugees of color. We believe that collective power is the key to transforming individual lives and the lives of thos ...

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Bold Beautiful Brilliant Girls Youth Empowerment Group is a 501c3 Nonprofit Organization founded to empower young ladies to be change agents in society.

We are born with the innate ability to explore, learn and create. We want young ladies to be empowered to dream big and be the change that they want to see in the world. We want them to identify the needs in their community and provide learning opportunities for them to discover and create resources that address that specific need.
Connect with us, today.

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Bold Beautiful Brilliant Girls Youth Empowerment Group is a 501c3 Nonprofit Organization founded to empower young ladies to be change agents in society. We are born with the innate ability to explore, learn and create. We want young ladies to be empowered to dream big and be the change that they want to see in the world.

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After 17 years at the helm of I Am BEAUTIFUL, Inc. as Executive Director, Dr. Tina Woodard is passing the leadership torch to Ms. Jennifer Hammond. Effective Aug. 9, 2021, Ms. Hammond will transition from Assistant Director to Executive Director of the award-winning nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the self-esteem and leadership skills of girls and women.

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Girl Empowerment Programs | Girl Talk Mentoring | Girl Talk, Inc.

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We inspire all girls to develop the confidence to lead by empowering one girl at a time. Join our girl empowerment programs to make a difference today!

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Introducing Alum 360 Calling all alum-mentors, mentees, board, staff, interns, volunteers & more! Enjoy the immense opportunities, powerful networks, and diverse talent of our multi-generational community-while offering your unique resources to the next generation of voices. LEARN MORE Girls Write Now On the Other Side of Everything: 2023 Anthology In partnership with Dutton Books, Amazon...

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Community Bridges empowers girls from diverse backgrounds to become exceptional students, positive leaders, and healthy young women. We have been serving girls and families in Montgomery County since 1997, and our Girls Program supports the growth of young women over a nine-year continuum, from 4th to 12th grade.

We invite you to watch our video about how CB has continued to support girls and their families during COVID-19.

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Community Bridges empowers girls from diverse backgrounds to become exceptional students, positive leaders, and healthy young women. We have been serving girls and families in Montgomery County since 1997, and our Girls Program supports the growth of young women over a nine-year continuum, from 4th to 12th grade.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of America - Youth Mentoring

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Dale Hawkins Long is a survivor of the September 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, where four of his friends were tragically killed and twenty-seven people injured. He and his late brother, Kenneth escaped unscathed. In September 2023 Dale spent a week visiting in Birmingham where he participated in several events commemorating the 60th anniversary of the bombing.

Dale's experience in Birmingham led him to dedicate his life to volunteering. The recipient of numerous awards for volunteer service, for five decades he has been a mentor with Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Dale was honored to be named the 1989 National Big Brother of the Year. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Clifford B. Norman, National Local Board Member of the Year. Last summer he received the inaugural Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Big Brother of the Year at its 97th General Convention in Dallas.

Dale is a speaker on the national platform who has shared his role in American History as a primary source of Jim Crow, 60's era, Birmingham with organizations including the National Urban League, Congressional Black Caucus, the United Methodist Church's General Conference, the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, Texas Wesleyan University, Dallas College, Collin County Community College, the University of Dallas, Texas Southern University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Wyoming, The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, The National MENTOR Summitt, ONCOR Electric Delivery, The American Heart Association, the Dallas Black Dance Theater and the Cities of Dallas, Ft. Worth and Plano. In 1990 he shared the podium at the White House with President George H. W. Bush as the President announced one of his Youth Engaged in Service initiatives. In 2004 during the 40th anniversary commemoration of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, President George W. Bush included in his White House addresses one of Dale's childhood memories of growing up in Birmingham. For volunteer work, Dale has garnered media attention from Forbes, Essence, Time and Ebony Magazines, the Dallas Morning News, PBS, CNN, C-Span, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Sphinx Magazine, the NBC Nightly News and is listed in the 2011 Grio 100.

Dale was born in Tuskegee, Alabama and reared in Birmingham where he graduated from high school in 1970. He accepted a music scholarship, becoming a member of the famous "Ocean of Soul" Marching Band of Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, where he earned the Bachelor of Science Degree in 1974.

He is a member of the Garland Branch NAACP, the Leadership Dallas Alumni Association, Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, a Life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, a Life member of the Texas Southern University National Alumni Association - Dallas Chapter, Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Suvivors Speakers Bureau, a Research Advocate with UT Southwest Medical Center, Dallas and a member of Kidsinbirmingham1963.org.

A resident of Garland, Texas he is the former Community Outreach Coordinator/Public Information Officer for the City of Dallas Public Works Department where he retired in April 2018. Previously he worked for a contractor on the NASA Space Shuttle Program, Houston, Texas Instruments in Dallas, The City of Garland, Texas and a contractor with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Light Rail Design and Construction Project.

Dale and his wife Ellen Scott Long are proud parents of adult daughters Kendra Dale and Amber Nicole and are members of Hamilton Park United Methodist Church in Dallas. In his spare time Dale enjoys reading, music and photography. A retired marathoner, Dale now does "power walking" and practices yoga.

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Home - Big Brothers Big Sisters of America - Youth Mentoring

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Mentoring can change a child's life. Sign up with BBBS today to start making a difference. Help a child reach their full potential. Learn how mentoring programs make a difference.

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Strong Women, Strong Girls (SWSG) is a nonprofit organization championing the next generation of female leaders through our innovative, multi-generational mentoring programs. As we foster a strong female community, SWSG is building a brighter, broader future for all girls and women.

Strong Women, Strong Girls (SWSG) champions the aspirations and potential of girls and women by connecting three generations through mentorship. Our innovative programs combine the power of mentoring relationships with a research-based curriculum built on the stories of strong female role models to bolster the confidence and skills of girls and young women.

Together, we're building a pipeline of powerful and diverse female leadership that will transform opportunities for all women and girls.

Inside every girl is strength, creativity, inquisitiveness, and a powerful voice. However, girls are up against societal obstacles that can limit their development and prevent them from reaching their full potential. Our program combats these forces by providing a girl-centric, supportive environment in which girls and young women can express their strengths and pursue their dreams.

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Strong Women, Strong Girls (SWSG) champions the aspirations and potential of girls and women by connecting three generations through mentorship. Our innovative programs combine the power of mentoring relationships with a research-based curriculum built on the stories of strong female role models to bolster the confidence and skills of girls and young women.

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MENTOR

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OUR VISION

We aim to close the mentoring gap and drive equity through quality mentoring relationships for young people. Potential is equally distributed; opportunity is not. We activate a movement across sectors that is diverse and broad and seeps into every aspect of daily life. We are connecting and fueling opportunity for young people everywhere they are from schools to workplaces and beyond.

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We aim to close the mentoring gap and drive equity through quality mentoring relationships for young people. Potential is equally distributed; opportunity is not. We activate a movement across sectors that is diverse and broad and seeps into every aspect of daily life.

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Youth thrive with support from a caring mentor who notices them - and their potential. Boys & Girls Club mentors help kids grow into confident, capable adults. Currently, one in three young people will grow up without a mentor.

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Youth thrive with support from a caring mentor who notices them - and their potential. Boys & Girls Club mentors help kids grow into confident, capable adults. Currently, one in three young people will grow up without a mentor.

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BEST Kids is nonprofit mentoring organization that empowers youth in foster care to build better futures, one child at a time.

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https://www.bestkids.org/

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The advice I would give is to end segregation because it's not fair. Also not to cheat on tests.

Birds in the City

826DC "The Thing with Feathers" Summer Workshop, 2018

We hear birds in the city. A bird chirps when singing a song. When birds chirp, it is harmony.

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The advice I would give is to end segregation because it's not fair. Also not to cheat on tests. 826DC "The Thing with Feathers" Summer Workshop, 2018 We hear birds in the city. A bird chirps when singing a song. When birds chirp, it is harmony.

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Boys To Men Mentoring of San Diego, Welcome to Youth Mentoring

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Welcome to where it all started. In 1996 Boys To Men Mentoring was founded in San Diego CA. Learn more about mentoring programs for young men.

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Strengthening Our Sons | Orlando Youth Mentorship Program for Boys

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Shaping Orlando’s young men into tomorrow’s community leaders through positive mentorship and educational activities.

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Strengthening Our Sons | Orlando Youth Mentorship Program for Boys

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Shaping Orlando’s young men into tomorrow’s community leaders through positive mentorship and educational activities.

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The Launch Pad is now a partner of United Way of Yavapai County!

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Mentoring Programs

Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood is a group mentoring program serving kings between the ages of 8 and 18 who live in the Baltimore Metropolitan area since 1996. Meetings take place the first and third Saturday of each month from 9-2pm. The first Saturday we do tutoring in Math, English, Reading, and Writing. The third Saturday of each month we bring in role models from all walks of life and occupation to help the kings begin thinking about what they want to do with their lives. The program also takes cultural enrichment field trips in and out of state to include a yearly camping trip. The program has "real life" conversations about topics that impact our community. For more information, please contact Cameron Miles at 410-852-8013 or email him at cmilesmmth@gmail.com. Yearly dues are $120 dollars which can be paid in installments.

Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood

Ray Cook- CEO/President

2846 West Layfayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21216
Phone: 410-947-3700
Fax: 410-947-3200
Email: onourshoulders@verizon.net

On Our Shoulders is a youth empowerment and violence prevention program providing education, technical skills and on-the-job training to Baltimore's youth and young adults. Ray Cook, founder and CEO of On Our Shoulders developed this successful program because he felt a need to change things around for youth people after he witnessed countless numbers of them die and become victims of violence on the street of Baltimore. On our shoulders provides counseling, education, and skills training to help youth people develop career potential and to improve their connections to advanced education. Program components include specialized group sessions in health and hygiene, drug counseling and referral; young mothers/fathers support groups and support groups for young victims of violence. The program also includes on the job training; skill enhancement and criminal assessment sessions that educate young people about court procedures and showing them brighter alternatives to incarceration.

Office of Multicultural Students Affair
3003 North Charles Street, Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410-516-8730

Each year, a team of approximately 3958 upper-class students mentor approximately 200 freshmen throughout their entire first year. Students are selected via a rigorous application process and go through extensive training during the summer to help prepare them as mentors. In addition to organizing planned events for their individual mentees, mentors meet bi-monthly to organize social, academic diversity, and community service programs to complement the 200 mentees' Hopkins experience. Because of the success of the Hopkins Mentoring Assistance Peer Program, several colleges and universities have designed similar programs on their campuses.

3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 250
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: 410-243-4000

A national nonprofit, youth serving organization (serving youth between the ages of 8 and 12 years of age) based on the concept of a one-to-one relationship between an adult volunteer and an at-risk child, usually from a one-parent family. Made up of more than 495 agencies located across the country BB/BS within Maryland serves Baltimore City, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Howard, Harford and Carroll Counties.

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America provides children and youth with adult role models and mentors who help enrich the children's lives, as well as their own, through weekly interaction. Volunteers go through a screening process before acceptance. Professional case workers provide assistance, support, and ongoing supervision of all matches.

Phone: 1-800-592-9958 (HOSTS Learning Helpline) helpline@hosts.com

A nationwide, structured mentoring program in language arts that combines community mentors, a computerized database, and a management system to improve student achievement. The program can be purchased and administered by school district for use in grades K-12. it is now being utilized in over 500 schools in the country and has won numerous awards. Almost 40,000 students are involved.
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4413 Liberty Heights Avenue net100md@aol.com

Established in 1963, a nonprofit organization of men in business, industry, public affairs, government, and the professions throughout New York State and other areas who share a common goal: to improve the quality of life for blacks and other minorities. One component of the organization is the mentoring program that provides a support network and positive role models for young black males, elementary through high school. It is principally an internal mentoring program in which members are paired one-to-one with students.
Baltimore, Maryland 21207
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1600 Duke Street, Suite 300
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-224-2200

Formed in 1989 between business and the volunteer sector, is a mentoring initiative involving dual strategies. It brings together leaders of diverse sectors and encourges them to mobilize people withing their networks to recruit mentors, support existing mentoring programs, and begin new mentoring initiatives. Local leadership councils that engage leaders, community by community, with support from the local United Way, in a coordinated effort to develop local strategies to increase and support mentoring initiatives.

The Maryland Mentoring Partnership info@marylandmentors.org

The Mentoring Program was developed to reach out to students and provide them with mentoring and tutoring opportunities to help improve their various skills. The goals of the program are to foster care and supportive relationships, encourage individuals to develop to their fullest potential, and to help individuals realize and acknowledge their vision for the future.
517 North Charles Street, Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone1: 800-741-2687
Phone 2: 410-685-8316
Fax: 410-752-5016
Email:

lmitchell@mail.hebca c.org

The mission of the Youth Opportunity (YO!) Baltimore is to help City youth recieve the education and career skills trainging needed to become successful adults. Yo! Serves out-of-school youth between the ages of 16 to 22 who live in Baltimore City. There are two Yo! Centeres that provide support services including :GED and Pre-GED classes on site at every center; screening to identify careers that suits your skills and interests; classes and on-line courses to help youth earn a diploma; life skills, clubs and fun social events; job readiness classes and job placement services; career training in high growth industries; computer Labs with Internet access; yoth lead community service projects and civic engagement; college fairs and tours; health suite projects and civic engagement; college fairs and tours; health suite providing basic service and eduaction (westside only); recording studio (Westide only) and a fitness Center (westside only). Yo! Westside:
Kerry Owings, manager
1510 W. Layfayette Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21217
Phone: 410-545-6950
Email: kowings@oedworks.com

Yo! Eastside:
Ms. Louis Mitchell, manager
1212 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21213
Phone: 410-732-2661
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The Maryland Mentoring Partnership
517 North Charles Street, Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: 800-741-2687
Phone 2: 410-685-8316
Fax: 410-752-5016
Email: info@marylandmentors.org

Maryland's largest, full-service youth mentoring organization. Through Its comprehensive programs-Maryland State Mentoring Resource Center, the Community-Wide Recruitment Campaign, Project RAISE, and special initiatives, MMP serves as a resource, advocate, expert and provider of quality mentoring. For more information on mentoring go to the following website for specifics on programs and contact information.

Office of Community Service
Montebello Complex Room C-209
Phone: 443-885-4328/9

Morgan State University offers a wide array of child and youth support and mentoring programs. Office of Community Service provides the students at Morgan State University with the channeling Community Service programs that are effective and address the social, cultural, education, and recreational needs to of the residents in the Baltimore Metropolitan area. Each of the community service programs vary in size, structure, and focus and are each uniquely named. All programs share the same goal of improving the education challenges of Baltimore's urban population. For example, JAHOD is a unique program for adolescent females who attend Baltimore City High Schools, Educational, cultural, social and recreational activities are designed to enable female youth to overcome the negative challenges they encounter in their neighborhoods, schools and daily lives. The goal is not only to expose the females to everyday societal problems but also to strengthen their minds through mentoring and academic tutoring. The coordinators and tutors are all young women striving to reach scholastic excellence as well as trying to create a positive environment for young females. Through the program, the mentors try to instill in each female the fact that personal success in tangible. KUMBA is a tutoring and mentoring program for adolescents between the agees of 12-18. Academic enrichment, knowledge about drug abuse and AIDS, peer resistance skills, leadership development activities along with discussion on the importance of positive social attitudes and behaviors are addressed.

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Mentoring Programs Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood is a group mentoring program serving kings between the ages of 8 and 18 who live in the Baltimore Metropolitan area since 1996. Meetings take place the first and third Saturday of each month from 9-2pm. The first Saturday we do tutoring in Math, English, Reading, and Writing.

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The Trevor Project | For Young LGBTQ Lives

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The Trevor Project provides 24/7 crisis support services to LGBTQ young people. Text, chat, or call anytime to reach a trained counselor. Free and confidential.

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A volunteer mentoring program for 34 years, BeFriend-A-Child provides opportunities for companionship, guidance and support to children who have been abused and neglected or who are at risk of abuse and neglect.

" This is one of the best things I've seen from the County!" Shared by a father about how a BeFriend-A-Child mentor has positively impacted his child's life.

Through mentoring, BeFriend-A-Child hopes to reduce some of the child abuse and neglect "risk factors" - social isolation, lack of support, and family stress; and to enhance various "protective factors" - positive self-esteem, good social skills, hobbies, interests, and good peer relationships. BeFriend-A-Child can also help encourage youth (with strong parental involvement) to make healthy life decisions and to achieve their potential.

By connecting at-risk youth with professionally supported, caring adult mentors, BeFriend-A-Child strives to create a community where children feel more confident and motivated to make informed, responsible life choices and become productive, involved members of the community.

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A volunteer mentoring program for 34 years, BeFriend-A-Child provides opportunities for companionship, guidance and support to children who have been abused and neglected or who are at risk of abuse and neglect. " This is one of the best things I've seen from the County!"

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Ongoing Training for Mentors: Twelve Interactive Sessions for U.S. Department of Education Mentoring Programs - National Mentoring Resource Center

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This training guide offers 12 activities that each address a key topic that can come up as mentoring relationships progress. These trainings are intended to support mentors as they encounter challenges and difficult circumstances while working with their mentees.

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Mentoring Training - Evidence-Based, Online

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Mentoring Training - Evidence-Based, Online

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Mentoring Training - Evidence-Based, Online

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Use the only evidence-based, online mentoring training to save you time, improve mentor preparedness and increase match length.

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A Peer Mentor is someone with a developmental disability who is trained to help others with similar experiences. They offer support, share what they've learned, and help you advocate for yourself, make choices, and be more independent. Peer Mentors understand what you are going through because they've been there too.

The Arc of Virginia began partnering with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) in 2018 to help build and manage the statewide Peer Mentor Support System.

We focus on training, outreach, and supporting the program, but we do not provide direct services. Instead, DBHDS licenses Provider Agencies across Virginia. These agencies employ and supervise the Peer Mentors who provide the direct support.

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A Peer Mentor is someone with a developmental disability who is trained to help others with similar experiences. They offer support, share what they've learned, and help you advocate for yourself, make choices, and be more independent. Peer Mentors understand what you are going through because they've been there too.