Empowering Struggling Young Men
Trickle-down mentoring offers a unique and meaningful work opportunity, mental health training and peer mentoring for young men.
Trickle-Down Mentoring
Empowering Young Men
Trickle-Down Mentoring is a start-up non-profit, aiming to address the growing epidemic of young men entering the juvenile detention and prison system. It is a direct response to the “school to prison pipeline” which includes policies and practices that directly and indirectly push students out of school and on a pathway to prison, through addressing underlying issues and providing services such as counseling, mentoring, behavior therapy and tutoring. Trickle-Down Mentoring expects to grow exponentially with branches throughout the communities, states and the nation.
Our Mission
To provide a solution for at-risk young men in need of positive male role models and mentors. Our goal is to reach as many young men as possible through a multi-tiered online platform. Our objective is to be a stopgap for these young men to prevent their entrance into the school to prison pipeline.
A New Movement
Our multi-level mentoring model addresses the shortage of mentors available to youth in need of mentoring through the training and delegation of mentoring services to a “small army” of peer mentors.
Program Details
Peer Mentor Training Program - At the head of each hierarchy (trickle down pyramid), is a counselor/LMHC. Peer mentors will be trained and monitored by experienced counselors who will determine their readiness to move forward to start working or if they need to further training/counseling before moving forward. For qualified applicants training and peer mentoring will be paid. Counseling/mentoring will continue as needed. (Ages 18-25)
Mentee Enrollment - Our model provides the opportunity for mentees to train to become peer mentors. (Ages 7-17)
Multi-Level Mentoring
LMHC will train and mentor peer mentors. (Ages 18-25)
Peer mentors will mentor at risk children youth ages 7-17 in small online groups, 2x-3x per week.
Building a brighter future
We provide a win-win model in that whether or not our peer mentors continue to work with us or move on to other endeavors, the training, mentoring and counseling they will have received will benefit their lives significantly.
