Building Youth Mentoring Programs. Mentor's name is derived from the Greek men. Participants in mentor programs, both young and old. School Programs; Get Involved. Mentoring; Calendar; Fees and Contributions; Contact; Certified Mentor Training; Meetings & Events Calendar. Church “Mans Up” to Address Black Youth Crisis. Writer Wil LaVeist went behind the scenes at a church to see how its mentoring. Business Case for Mentoring; Mentoring Boys and Young Men of. Young Men Society Young Men Society is the central program of the Boys to Men Foundation. At risk elementary, middle and high school. Milwaukee Man Starts Mentoring Program for Black Youth in 5. People living in Milwaukee’s 5. The 100 Black Men's programs are based on a simple principle-through sustained mentoring programs young people. The 100 Black Men of. Effective Strategies for Mentoring African American. American Institutes for Research Effective Strategies for Mentoring African. Saturdays, things are different. Thousands of the men from this zip code are in prison or have records. Jobs are scarce; poverty, almost universal. Some people sell drugs or their bodies to make money. However, on Saturdays in the Borchert Field neighborhood, neighbors have started coming together to lift up the young people - thanks to Andre Ellis. He's a local playwright, a community gardener and the man behind the . They’re actually a half- hour early.“Eight o’clock is late. At eight o’clock, I cut it off because I gotta make sure I pay the commitment number one,” Ellis says as he watches the clock. For the past 1. 0 Saturdays, Ellis has come to this spot. He offers $2. 0 to any boy between the ages of 1. About 1. 0 weeks ago, the police had arrested an 1. Ring and the mother came to me and said they got Jermaine and I said for what. They done arrested Jermaine, he gone have a record and be a felon. Afterward, Ellis decided to give the 1. Saturday morning cleaning up where he messed up.“He was working so hard, and when we finished working he looked at me and said Mr. Andre, can I tell you something? I said what do you mean Jermaine? He said all of the people telling me not to do bad only do bad things so I don’t know what to do. I said you need to be around people who do good stuff, like me. Ellis put out a call on Facebook for money, and people donated enough to pay the friends $2. Saturday morning work. And the community continues responding, Ellis has collected enough to reward the 5. No rich donors—just people who want to see young black men do better. People like Kwabena Nixon. He came not only to give a donation, but also, to inspire the boys.“It’s a lot of people who talk about how bad you are but it’s not a lot of people who gone help you get out that bad situation. Am I right?” Nixon says. Young Men: “Yeah.”“It’s a lot of people gone tell you the hood is no good, you can’t make it over here. How many of ya’ll know that’s not true? Make some noise for me, should be so much louder. It’s a message 1. Samuel Johnson takes to heart. He says he knows what some people think when they see him.“They see oh that’s a little boy, he out here running the streets smoking, selling drugs and stuff. Just making bad decisions and stuff and that’s not the case,” Johnson says. Johnson says the boys who meet at the garden on Saturday mornings wants to make their neighborhoods nicer.“It make(s) our community look better, it make us all look better as a whole because when you look at us, we’ll be clean but when you look at our community it’ll be all dirty. But then if it’s clean, then that makes us look better,” Johnson says. And Johnson says he feels the cleanups are making a difference, especially for the people who live there.“To me, I haven’t heard that many gun shots at night or I haven’t seen that many people getting robbed. I think everybody is starting to come together as a whole,” Johnson says. Once summer ends, Andre Ellis says the men plan to head into classrooms to connect with boys. He says they won’t get paid for learning, but will get something much better, a chance to succeed in life. He hopes these Saturday mornings, are just the start of change.“Now listen up, you tired of violence, say yeah. You tired of your people going to jail, say yeah. You tired of your friends dying in the street, say yeah.
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