Healing-Centered Mentoring™

• Understand how to leverage technology-delivered interventions to produce improvements in health, school adjustment, stress management, depression, and anxiety in youth
• Deliver HCM training to organization's staff and mentor
• Provide feedback on the HCM framework that will support the improvement of the program
• Learn how to track mental health outcomes and provide support to youth based on data
• Share lessons learned with the broader community and solicit additional support

• The history of mentoring and positive youth development in the United States
• Mental health challenges for youth in the United States
• Child and Adolescent Development
• Interactions between youth, social systems, and institutions
• The impacts of race, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and religion on adolescent development
• Key components of effective mentor-mentee relationships in adolescence
• Roles, responsibilities, and boundaries when supporting children, youth, and families
• Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills training
  • Core Mindfulness
  • Distress Tolerance
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness
• Approaches to technology-delivered interventions
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policy overview
• Building a self-care regimen as a helping professional

YMC has assembled an all-star team of youth development practitioners, mental health professionals, and other passionate community members to develop and deliver content for this innovative program. 

We are proud to work with the following people on the HCM Working Committee: 

• Margaret A. Brunson, Ph.D., MPA
• Shauna M. Cooper, Ph.D.
• Atrayus O. Goode, MSOD
• Micah Griffin, Ph.D.
• Melchor Quick Hall, Ph.D.
• Harvey Hinton, III, Ph.D.
• Marcus Howard, Ph.D.
• Aidil Ortiz, MA
• Frank Pollock, MBA
• Kennedy Ruff
• Jasmin L. Spain, M.Ed.

Fellows will receive up to 10 sessions of coaching over the course of the 7-month program.