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How Mentoring Shapes the Leaders Our Communities Need Tomorrow
In 2023, we are proud to have our long-time corporate partner QTS as the sponsor for this prestigious award, The Mentor of the Year Award Sponsored by QTS. After a round of nominations from each of our Learning Centers, a rigorous review by a specially selected group of QTS employees, we are thrilled to announce our mentor of the year from Salt Lake City: Daniel Guerrero.
Over the course of about eight months during the pandemic, we worked together to co-design a narrative shifting visual podcast to reach other young people facing the hard stuff in life. Our initial big goal of the podcast was to de-stigmatize the experience of having a parent incarcerated so that young people will seek help and understand they are not alone.
While Juneteenth is the day signifying “freedom” for African Americans due to the legal abolition of slavery, true freedom for African Americans has never been fully realized in this country.
When my son was selected to be a part of Michelle Obama’s “A Year of Firsts”- an internet series to document the first year of college, who could have guessed that our entire world would be going through “a year of firsts”!
During this unprecedented experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have had a new term added to our vocabulary – “Social Distancing”. But is this really the goal?
For years, many people have viewed intelligence as something that kids are born with instead of a mindset that can be developed through hard work.
Every child needs reassurance and guidance at some point in their life. Life is a journey of transitions for everyone, and children, just like adults, experience feelings as they anticipate or react to transitions that they experience.
Described as “energetic, bright, positive and intentional” by Houston Dream Academy Learning Center Director Dipen Bhakta and Mentor Coordinator Walter Hull, Lauren Harris is currently a graduate student at the University of Texas School of Public Health and works at Change Happens, a nonprofit that teaches life skills to youth.
So, you thought retirement would be a piece of cake and you would love spending time relaxing and pursuing hobbies. Then you woke up to the reality that you’re bored and searching for a new purpose in life. Volunteering with a mentoring program might be the solution.
