Written by Mary Mitchell (Chicago Sun-Times) Alex Levesque’s Automotive Mentoring Group continues to help young men and women build skills for jobs — and for life. | Sun-Times file photo A lot of people already know that Alex Levesque’s Automotive Mentoring Group — AMG for short — in Bedford Park is a successful mentoring program. […]
Editor’s note. This article, which was originally posted in the Atlantic Monthly, describes both the psychological toll of parental incarceration, the results of two new reports, and the types of programs that have been developed to redress this issue. Clearly, youth mentoring has a vital role to play. While mass incarceration in America came to […]
AUDIE CORNISH NPR If you took a map of Chicago and put down a tack for each person shot last year, you’d need nearly 3,000 tacks. Of those, 101 would be clustered in the neighborhood of East Garfield Park. That’s where 15-year-old Jim Courtney-Clarks lives. “To be honest, I really don’t like it,” Courtney-Clarks says. […]
By Patrick T. McCarthy (reposted W.T. Grant Foundation) Our supply of evidence about What Works, though still too small, is beginning to grow. I want to focus here on how we use evidence—how we put it to work to help more of our nation’s children and families achieve their full potential. Let’s focus on two important […]
By Clio Chang, Century Foundation Policy Issue Brief America has a lingering problem employing its youngest workers. In July 2015, the nationwide youth unemployment rate was at 12.2 percent, more than double the general unemployment rate of 5.3 percent.1 Even worse, the number of disconnected youth—those between ages 16 to 24 who are neither in […]
Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring Short Course Enhancing the Elements: Applying the EEP4 to Diverse Programs and Populations The sixth annual National Mentoring Summit will take place January 27-29, 2016, at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Downtown and will explore the theme of “Connection | Growth | Opportunity”. With the release of the 4th Edition of MENTOR”s […]
By Jean Rhodes In a recent NYTimes Magazine feature, journalist Ben Shpigel describes the network of caring adults, including a foster mother, coaches, guidance counselors, formal mentors, and teachers, who helped NY Jets player, Lorezo Maudlin III, overcome overwhelmingly difficult circumstances. According to Shpigel: “His mother, Akima Lauderdale, an alcoholic with a penchant for selling cocaine, has […]
Jennifer Ludden Correspondent, National Desk, NPR When West Baltimore’s Renaissance Academy High School hired four African-American mentors earlier this year, student Jalone Carroll wanted nothing to do with them. He figured they would come “mess everything up, and then dip,” or disappear. “We didn’t know how to take that type, you feel me,” says Carroll. […]
In chapter 126 of Matilda Raffa Cuomo’s book: The Person Who Changed My Life, United States Senator, Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 and a prisoner of the Vietnam War, John McCain, remembers the teacher who provided him with the idealism he admired and emulated.
By Kelsey Warner (Christian Science Monitor) One in 14 American children have experienced a parent serving time, according to a new study by Child Trends. For black children, the rate is even higher – one in nine. Sue Ogrocki/AP New data sheds light on another population enduring the high rate of mass incarceration in the United […]
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