Poderismo: The Power of Mentorship in the Lives of Youth of Color

Rafael Avendaño

Training Description

The class aims to support youth practitioners by offering them strategies and tools for to build stronger relationships with the power of mentorship. This training will also cover current issues that youth of color face in schools, communities and societies. In addition, the class will offer effective mentorship approaches leading to more effective, happier, and successful youth and practitioners the course offers a framework for youth practitioners of all experience levels to exchange ideas, experiences and resources.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will learn in depth knowledge about mentorship and the dynamics that peer and group mentorship have in the life of youth of color whom have supportive mentors.

• Participants will learn about youth whom fall into oppressive cycles and become stigmatized, criminalized and negatively mentally affected.