Empowering Black Youth through Mentoring
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Mentoring young black males is an urgent matter. Mentoring is a time-proven strategy that can help young people of all circumstances achieve their maximum potential. Effective mentoring programs offer enough flexibility to help meet each mentee’s personal needs yet allowing mentoring relationships to flourish within a safe structure. It provides young people with support, counsel, friendship, reinforcement, and a constructive example. Mentoring promotes healthy and positive relationships between mentees and mentors which in turn builds community capacity. Mentoring activities promote literacy skills, self-esteem, confidence, and social appropriateness. Mentoring supports strength-based practices that build resiliency. I find it important to inspire our young black males to make decisions that will not only benefit them but also benefit the people around them. Making smart, sound decisions, require critical thinking. Mentoring also plays a huge role in enhancing academic motivation and achievement. All progress requires group work, effort, and dedication. Mentoring can be one of their pathways to success, helping them successfully navigate the transition from school to work/entrepreneurship, and from childhood to adulthood.
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When we think about our youth, we think about the future, their ideas, and their energy. We want the youth to contribute their ideas and energy to create a bright future for society to resolve social issues, to be great leaders, and to make a difference in other people lives. In Empowering Black Youth Through Mentoring, author Abra L Taylor offers a blueprint to assist with guiding today’s youth.
A co-founder of a nonprofit agency that focuses on young Black men, Taylor aims to encourage more Black males to step up and mentor young Black youth. He also seeks to inspire young Black males to strive for greatness and to be productive individuals. Mentoring can be one of their pathways to success, helping them navigate the transition from school to work/entrepreneurship, and from childhood to adulthood.
Empowering Black Youth through Mentoring promotes a positive outlet to educate, encourage, and empower young, Black males transitioning to manhood. It aims to inspire and motivate Black youth to be successful, find their purpose, and create a path that affects generations to come in a positive manner.
About the Author
Abra L. Taylor was born and raised in Gulfport, MS. He is married to Bianca Taylor, and together, they have three children. He is one of the founders of Gulf Coast Outreach and Leadership. Through the years, his drive has always been to create an opportunity that has a major impact on the community and a lasting effect on our youth along the Gulf Coast area. With the help of the other advisors, his mission is to strengthen, collaborate, and expose the youth to a wealth of knowledge because knowledge is power. Growing up in Turnkey, he was exposed to a lot of things, good and bad. It was a challenge for him because the world had so much to offer. However, he wanted more. He wanted greater, and God gave him an outlet and a mindset to surpass all the various obstacles thrown in his path. With those challenges, that made him thrive to be a successful, Black man. Through his own personal experiences, he wants to be able to offer that same outlet to those around him. He believes it is his responsibility to lead by example and show these young males a better way of life through his character, conversation, and conduct.