Mass Mentoring Partnership

Professional Development Series: Microaggressions
2022-12-21 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual
Microaggressions are brief verbal or non-verbal insults towards a disadvantaged group of people. Latinos/x often experience microaggressions, intentionally or unintentionally, on a daily basis at their workplace, school, and communities. This session considers how microaggressions manifest themselves among Latinos/x living in the U.S. and how they affect their mental health.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have:

Identified the different types of racial microaggressions in their environment
Examined the effects of microaggressions on mental health
Learned techniques on how to respond when exposed to a microaggression

This workshop is the second in a five workshop series that Ysabel Garcia is facilitating for MMP. All are welcome to attend, regardless if you attended the first workshop. Ysabel asks that all registrants attend for the entire three hour workshop.
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About the Presenter
Ysabel Garcia is a first-generation Dominican immigrant with a bold and ambitious mission to dive heart first into raw and honest conversations about mental health, equity, and suicide prevention. She is a social justice educator, skilled dialogue facilitator, wounded healer, and disruptor of systems of oppression.
She embodies her messaging and personality through Estoy Aqui LLC, a grassroots initiative that provides suicide prevention training and social justice education to organizations and institutions serving the Latino/x and Black community. Her main goal is to raise awareness of the underlying social, cultural, and racial factors that create conditions for suicide to exist in these populations.
She has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Child Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Bay Path University.

Creating Connections: Empowering Youth-Adult Relationships
2022-12-13 09:30 - 12:00 | Zoom
Building on the work of the Search Institute, this training will prepare adults to develop relationships that powerfully and positively shape young people’s identities that help them develop thriving mindsets and create opportunities for young people to share their opinions, thoughts, and voice in programming. This interactive training is designed to build knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enhance the capacity of adults to connect and to support the development of empowering youth-adult relationships.
This training is provided at no cost for ASOST grantees thanks to generous funding from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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Mental Health Beyond the Individual
2022-11-16 13:00 - 16:00 | Webinar
MENTAL HEALTH BEYOND THE INDIVIDUAL
Taking care of our mental health does not stop with us. We must also hold systems accountable for their role in our wellness. The Mental Health Beyond the Individual training encourages participants to redefine the concept of mental health as an individual issue by reflecting on the four types of oppression and their relevance to well-being.
By the end of the training, participants will have:

Expanded their perception of mental health to include systemic influences
Understood how oppression operates in its multiple forms
Examined examples about the effects of oppression on well-being

Link to register
About the Presenter
Ysabel Garcia is a first-generation Dominican immigrant with a bold and ambitious mission to dive heart first into raw and honest conversations about mental health, equity, and suicide prevention. She is a social justice educator, skilled dialogue facilitator, wounded healer, and disruptor of systems of oppression.
She embodies her messaging and personality through Estoy Aqui LLC, a grassroots initiative that provides suicide prevention training and social justice education to organizations and institutions serving the Latino/x and Black community. Her main goal is to raise awareness of the underlying social, cultural, and racial factors that create conditions for suicide to exist in these populations.
She has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Child Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Bay Path University.

Journey to 30 Symposium & Celebration: Centering Equity & Belonging in Youth-Adult Relationships
2022-11-10 11:00 - 20:00 | Encore Boston Harbor, 1 Broadway, Everett, MA, 02149, United States
Visit the Journey to 30 web page . Registration is now live!

Symposium tickets $100
Celebration tickets $200
Full day tickets $300

Calling in the Call Out Culture with Loretta Ross
2022-10-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Webinar
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We are facing a tumultuous future in this country and the subsequent need for caring and healing relationships between adults and young people has never been more important. In order to build a unified and strategic human rights movement that weaves our strengths together, we need to use our differences as a platform for modeling a positive future built on justice and the politics of love, rather than a return to the past based on the politics of fear and prejudice.
How does “calling-out,” or public shaming, advance social justice ideas and lay the groundwork for important discussions? “Calling In the Call Out Culture,” explores alternatives to the call-out ethos featuring feminist and anti-racist scholar-activist Loretta Ross. Ross believes that fighting against oppression and injustice are the dues we pay for the privilege of being conscious and we are honored to be able to challenge it with great responsibility. In our shared commitment to supporting one another – calling people in rather than calling them out, is a prerequisite for building a united movement.

Rodman Ride for Kids 2022
2022-09-24 08:00 - 17:00

Mentoring Institute
2022-09-07 10:00 - 2022-09-08 15:00 | Zoom
Learn the ABC’s of Mentoring at Mass Mentoring Partnership’s Virtual Mentoring Institute!
2-Day VIRTUAL Workshop
Wednesday, September 7, 10AM – 3PM AND Thursday, September 8, 10AM – 3PM
This foundational two-day training will be offered this fall and is designed to provide all the necessary tools and information you need to create and sustain empowering youth-adult mentoring relationships.
This training was created with your busy schedule and unique program needs in mind. The Mentoring Institute builds upon MMP’s existing training curriculum, offering new staff at mentoring programs the opportunity to receive the quality training they need to hit the ground running and work effectively with mentors and other staff.
At this training, you will walk away with the ability to:

Define youth mentoring and recognize the essential components of a quality mentoring program
Apply the Elements of Effective Practice in your program practices

This training is best for:

New mentoring program staff and AmeriCorps members
Seasoned staff that need a “refresher” in quality program practices

Participants will receive MMP’s Mentoring Institute Workbook filled with activities and tools to support empowering relationships at their program sites.

2022 Falmouth Road Race
2022-08-21 08:00 - 17:00

Mass Mentoring Counts 2022 Networking Session Follow Up
2022-06-29 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
We invite everyone to engage in a meaningful conversation with our network of programs and stakeholders as we dive a bit deeper into the data and share thoughts and observations.
This Networking Session is a follow up to the June 22 Data Release Session and the Mass Mentoring Counts Data Release Report. There will be opportunities to share strategies, ask questions, and provide feedback.

REGISTER FOR FOLLOW UP NETWORKING SESSION

Mass Mentoring Counts 2022
2022-06-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Webinar
Please join us as we present the important results of the 2022 Mass Mentoring Counts survey. Since its beginning in 2006, this biennial survey has provided a snapshot of the state of structured mentoring programs in Massachusetts. This year’s study focuses on the impact that the COVID 19 pandemic has had on mentoring relationships in the Commonwealth, and it provides a detailed look into how the pandemic has affected structured mentoring programs–their staff, their mentors, the young people they serve, and their financial security.

Here’s a preview of what to expect:

Jill Capitani, Research Manager from the UMass Donahue Institute, will present the results of the Mass Mentoring Counts Survey.
A panel of local experts will offer their perspective on the data and how it should inform efforts to support programs as they adjust to new ways of mentoring and strengthening relationships in the wake of the pandemic.
There will be an opportunity to ask questions about the data and findings.
We will be holding a follow up NETWORKING SESSION on Wednesday, June 29, from 10:00 am – 11:30 am to provide time to dive a bit deeper into the data and share thoughts and observations. We invite everyone to engage in a meaningful conversation with our network of programs and stakeholders. There will be opportunities to share strategies, ask questions, and provide feedback.

REGISTER FOR MASS MENTORING COUNTS SURVEY PRESENTATION

REGISTER FOR FOLLOW UP NETWORKING SESSION

For more information, please contact Beth Fraster, VP/Chief Program Officer. We hope you can join us for this important conversation that will illuminate the challenges facing young people and the mentoring and youth-serving programs who support them.

ASOST Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth
2022-05-18 09:30 - 12:00
This training provides participants with skills, knowledge, and strategies to create a supportive environment for LGBTQ+ youth. Participants will learn key terms and the difference between sexual identity and gender, as well as the types of discrimination LGBTQ youth experience in Massachusetts. At the end of the session, participants will learn best practices and develop action plans for their organizations.

Mentoring Night at Fenway Park
2022-05-16 18:00 - 21:30
Mass Mentoring Partnership holds its largest community engagement event at Fenway Park on May 16th at 6 pm.

Supporting Immigrant Youth - ASOST Training
2022-05-03 09:30 - 12:00
In Massachusetts, an estimated one in five children are immigrants. This one hour webinar will shed light on the experiences of immigrant youth, as well as the unique ability of empowering relationships to support this group of young people. Participants will increase their knowledge of immigrant youth’s needs and learn strategies to create programming that is responsive and inclusive.
