The Carolinas Youth Mentoring Symposium is Back!

Explore the Power of Play in Mentoring Relationships on October 12

Join us on October 12 at the Durham Convention Center to explore how joyful mentoring experiences enhance mental wellness and foster stronger youth-adult partnerships that can inspire a greater connection to the values and goals that make our lives meaningful.

 

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Calling All Outstanding Youth Leaders!

Apply for Your Chance to Win $20,000 for College

The Outstanding Youth Leaders of the Year Scholarship award is a $20,000 scholarship that will be awarded to three prospective college students who demonstrate success within their respective mentoring programs. Applications are due August 16, 2024.

 

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What is “Youth Mentoring Collaborative”?

Who We Are and What We Do

Whether you’re familiar with us or just discovering us, we got you! Read more about who we are, what we do, and how we do it by Learning More About YMC.

Critical Perspectives on Mentoring

Critical mentoring disrupts saviorism models that exist in traditional mentoring programs and considers how race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identities impact how youth experience the world and mentoring relationships. “Critical mentoring places youth at the center of the process, challenging norms of adult and institutional authority and notions of saviorism to create collaborative partnerships with youth and communities that recognize there are multiple sources of expertise and knowledge.” (Torie Wieston-Serdan, 2017)

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Find out more about who does the work, and why they do it.

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Mentoring Resources

Check out our carefully compiled resources on mentoring from the perspective of an organization, a caregiver, a mentor, and youth.

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Who We Are and What We Do

The Youth Mentoring Collaborative (YMC) is a capacity-building organization dedicated to increasing the number of black and brown youth in identity-affirming mentoring relationships while working to dismantle the systemic barriers that youth and their families face on a daily basis.

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