Unfortunately, a lack of need is not the problem.
Finding and training caring adults willing to become a Mentor for Teens is our main challenge. Join us and you will experience the results YOUTH IMPACT MENTORING’S group mentoring can can create!
Who We Are:
We are men and women who believe that teens who are supported, guided and inspired by the adults in their lives tend to become the kind of good people that the world very much needs. We are people who know that as many as fifty percent of teens grow up without a strong male role model in their household. We are volunteer adults: men and women who show up for youth by modeling healthy behaviors and work to empower, guide and mentor adolescents on a path to healthy adulthood; we are men and women who support youth 12 to 18, by working to strengthen and expand mentoring programs and activities. We are trained Mentors who seek to become the aunts and uncles, who show up during a teens difficult developmental time, when their needs are the greatest.
What we do:
We use a group mentoring model, with the help of trained female and male Mentors, to support struggling teenagers in their community. Our proven curriculum incorporates Motivational Interviewing, holistic, and inter-generational, asset-based mentoring practices and encourages community involvement, intensive self-reflection, and habits of positive critical thinking and self-accountability.
Basically, we sit with teens in school circles, interact with them during weekend activities, and accompany them in transformative weekend mountain retreats, in ways that honor their individual goals and processes for growth. We ask questions. We highlight strengths we see. We encourage. We build trust and show that we care.
And thanks to the youth’s own inner need to grow into healthy young adults who want to shine, we, together, create positive outcomes!
Every week, our mentors show up at middle schools, high schools, and community centers to give teenagers a community of men who listen, encourage, and empower them. On average, about 75% of the teens participating in our programs are growing up without a father.
We start in the 7th grade middle school classroom. Middle school is often the most critical time in a boy's development and meeting them then allows us to build connections and to encourage these boys as they move through various challenges and prepare to enter High School.
What we are:
Youth Impact Mentoring (formerly BOYS TO MEN PHOENIX) is a non-sectarian, non-profit that incorporated as a 501(c)3 in Arizona in 2015. We are volunteer adults, who want to consistently show up and model healthy adult behavior. We’ve been doing this work—and learning how to do it well, since 2008.
All Are Welcome! BE A MENTOR!
In the cultural tradition, the adults of the village band together to guide and support the upcoming youth in order to perpetuate a sustainable community. YOUTH IMPACT MENTORING will continue to “be there”, showing up for many forgotten youth from our Village.
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We are part of an international movement. This work began in San Diego County in 1996 and today BTM San Diego supports over 1,000 boys each week, with many of their mentors now being men that benefited from the program years ago.
Our BTM curriculum, and group-based mentoring approach, are being utilized in various communities to empower young men around the world, (United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa), in independent BTM organizations.