Mentoring Roundtables

In this engaging presentation, Baron Parks will lead us in exploring innovative and proven strategies to enhance mentor recruitment efforts, with a focus on the power of outreach and the importance of increasing participation numbers. Attendees will leave this Roundtable having learned a number of simple enhancements that staff can use to engage and recruit volunteers to positively impact their programs. 

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In this Mentor Learning Series, Dr. Christian Rummell from Mentorist Consulting will highlight individual actions that each oaf us can take to counter risks and hostile climates faced by LGBTQ+ young people. In this session, you will learn about the Assets of PRIDE---intentional strategies you can take to build strengths-based relationships for LGBTQ+ young people that specifically encourage Possibilities, Resilience, Identity, Development and Engagement. Click here to register for this session!

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It’s the season of beginnings – many school-based mentoring programs are ramping up again, and numerous other efforts are at the beginning of a new mentoring cycle. Please join us for our September Roundtable and be prepared to share recent successes as well as any challenges your program is facing.  In addition, we will be discussing training resources and no-cost technical assistance opportunities

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Dr. Heger is a professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the USC Keck School of Medicine and the founder and director of the Violence Intervention Program (VIP) at L:A+USC Medical Center. In addition serving as the largest child abuse program in the US, the VIP provides medical and mental health services to victims of family violence and sexual assault of all ages. VIP is a 24/7 program that includes a large treatment component for children and youth in foster care. Since the onset of this program a major focus has been on creating an environment for women and children where healing can occur. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the essential need to diagnosis became obvious early on when seeing children in the primary care clinics for foster children these children would be the ones who failed placements and who needed a diagnosis and appropriate treatment in order to stay.

Avonelle Hanley-Mills (Pronouns They/Them)  Avonelle is the Coordinator of SOLVE (Sharing our Lives, Voices, and Experiences), a program of Mental Health Association of San Francisco (MHASF). Avonelle is a Caribbean-American Orator, Advocate, Writer/Poet, and Transformative Coach living in San Francisco Bay Area. Our presenter identifies as an immigrant, a member of the LGBTQIA community, and a person with abilities (known as disabilities). Avonelle has over 20 years in the non-profit social service field, servicing diverse cultural/economic/ethnic communities. Their service approach focuses on transformative counseling, restorative, resiliency, and strength-based practices, which strengthen resiliency, recovery, empowerment and independence.