Introduction to the Mentoring Mindset
2024-11-06 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
This training is intended to provide youth program staff with the capacity building needed to understand the critical components of the “Mentoring Mindset.” Each participant will leave with knowledge of the four core components and how they influence our work as mentors and mentees in our organization and communities. We will also unpack how this mentoring mindset can be shared with our volunteers and partners to provide shared understanding of our work. The goal for the “Mentoring Mindset” framework and training is to shift the way that relationships are created, sustained, and leveraged to deepen the shared responsibility of realizing each person’s full potential and their capacity to influence their communities.

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Cultural Responsiveness
2024-11-12 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
The ability to connect across cultures is key to supporting our work with youth and caregivers. This interactive training will help participants understand dimensions of identity and culture and the ways that prejudices and bias hamper opportunities for connection. This introductory training helps program staff explore personal dynamics of power and privilege and begin to develop strategies to increase both personal and organizational capacity to practice cultural responsiveness.

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Day 3: Mental Health & Dis-Ease
2024-11-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Converge Center, 1367 Main Street, Brockton, United States
Mental Health & Dis-Ease
Adolescence is a crucial period for developing and maintaining the habits important for mental health, but some adolescents are at greater risk of mental health conditions due to material disadvantages, stigma, discrimination or exclusion, and/or lack of access to quality support and services. This is why mentoring is so critical. A supportive adult presence – that allows for a shared connection and vulnerability – contributes to positive growth and adaptation. Come and learn how to promote resiliency among young people in this virtual training, targeted to both staff and mentors.
Attend all 4 and receive a certificate of completion*
Importance of Healing for Our Well-being: For Us & the Youth We Serve
Trauma and healing series in Brockton.
1. Trauma Informed Care on Sept. 19 in person 10am-12pm
2. Healing on Oct. 10 virtual 10-11:30am
3. Mental Health on Nov. 14 in person 10am-12pm
4. Well-being on Dec. 12 virtual 10-11am

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Day 4: Importance of Healing for Our Well-being: Cultivating Well-Being
2024-12-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Cultivating Well Being
Cultivating well being is critical for young people to thrive as adults. What does it mean for youth to be well? What does it mean for them to succeed? What does it take for adults to improve well being for young people? This workshop is designed to help adult caregivers identify and generate skills that enhance youth well being. Raising adolescents to improve the world, builds stronger communities where people care for and about each other. Young people, in turn, develop a more positive sense of well-being and their opportunities to make impactful change – on SO many levels – become endless.
Attend all 4 and receive a certificate of completion*
Importance of Healing for Our Well-being: For Us & the Youth We Serve
Trauma and healing series in Brockton.
1. Trauma Informed Care on Sept. 19 in person 10am-12pm
2. Healing on Oct. 10 virtual 10-11:30am
3. Mental Health on Nov. 14 in person 10am-12pm
4. Well-being on Dec. 12 virtual 10-11am

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Supporting Black and Latino Boys through Mentoring: Brockton, MA Day 1 of 2
2026-01-21 09:30 - 15:00 | Natural Resources Trust of Easton, 307 Main Street, North Easton, MA, 02356, United States
Join us for a two-day training; the first day will be an in-person workshop on Supporting Black and Latino Boys on 1/21 in Brockton, MA.
There will be a second day for attendees to join virtually on 1/27.
This training aims to provide adults with the skills and knowledge needed to be effective mentors for Black and Latino young men and boys. The training consists of three modules:

Examination of cultural competencies, including an exploration of personal views on privilege and race, providing tools for building ethnic/racial pride.
Identification of social capital and related empowerment of mentee and family, and the importance of racial identity.
Exploration of research-based strategies and approaches that can assist mentors as they embrace a critical consciousness in their work with young Black males.

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If you have questions about this training, reach out to Janeen Smith at jsmith@massmentors.org

Mentor Circle: Practicing Cultural Humility February 2026
2026-02-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual
Practicing Cultural Humility: A Chapter of Becoming a Better Mentor
Join us for a brand new offering from Mass Mentoring Partnership: Mentor Circles will run every third Thursday evening of most months (dates will be adjusted if holidays interfere.) Mentor Circles are virtual, off-hours opportunities to connect with other mentors, build knowledge, and practice skills related to being the best mentor you can be. Topics will vary. You are welcome as often as you can join us.
Cultural humility is an ongoing, lifelong process of self-reflection and learning about how social identity and experiences are shaped by systems of oppression, power, and privilege. We consider this an especially important topic in all mentoring relationships, even if mentors and mentees are similar in some important characteristics. Mentors with cultural humility continuously reflect on their own social identity and make efforts to learn about their mentee’s social identity, experiences, and background. Join us for guided reflection about the differences and similarities between mentors and mentees that are shaped by inequities in our society. Learn how cultivating this skill can help mentors overcome barriers in a relationship with a young person, especially when approached with empathy and a growth mindset.

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