Susan taylor national cares mentoring program

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Name required. Email required. Comment required. This made attending college a realistic goal for the younger students. Once you learned of the dire academic straits of black children, you began to prepare your exit from Essence. Why did you choose a mentoring framework and not something else, for example, scholarships? Mentoring works miracles. It is a proven, effective, and low-cost way to profoundly change young challenged lives.

We able African Americans must step up and do for our children what others did for us—create a pathway to self-sufficiency and security. None of us got where she or he is alone. The devoted women and men who volunteer in our CARES affiliates recruit, train, place, and support mentors.

Many of them work as mentors themselves. We assist the oft-forgotten Black—and Brown—people we serve in building bridges to the brighter futures they long for. They instill hope, critical thinking skills, racial pride, and a love for learning and wellness in mind, body and spirit.

Our students and children in detention learn to transform their thinking and behaviors, how to love themselves, as well as one another, and prepare for success in school, careers and life. Their lives are being shredded by many of the very institutions created to nourish all the children of our country.

Our more than , mentors and local CARES Affiliate Leaders network are devoted to advancing our young who are isolated and mostly written off by society. Black women and Black men were too often not in the numbers. We discovered that it was largely because structures did not exist to bring African Americans squarely into the work. Local community leaders began responding. First in Atlanta, then rapidly replicating the model across the country, leaders of CARES Affiliates learned to recruit, train and deploy committed Black adults to local schools and youth-serving organizations in desperate need of Black volunteers.

Deepening our commitment to healing young lives and understanding that group mentoring is a low-cost way to change the predictable futures of multitudes of impoverished children, today CARES is building transformational group-mentoring programs in several of the most under-resourced schools in high-need communities.