Program Highlights
Wellness Through Arts
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MENTOR TRAINING CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
Equally critical to the program is the team of stipend-funded school-based mentors (one per school), primarily Black or Latino men, who assist at groups and provide young men with academic support in school.
Topics covered during Mentor Training include:
- YMWAP history, mission, goals, achievements
- YMWAP Mentor Roles and Responsibilities
- Why do you do this work?
- Racial Trauma—Causes, Impact, and Ways to Address
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Building Resilience:
- Staying healthy, avoiding burnout as mentors
- What does success look like in our young men?
- Young Man with a Plan Success Plans
- Academics: Helping our students achieve at higher levels:
- Success stories/how students improve
- Role of mentors in monitoring and interventions
- Practice: Coaching, mentoring and interventions
- Case studies of typical scenarios and challenges our young men face
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