Mentoring Males of Color

Reality Check Mentoring Inc. focuses on uplifting and building young males of color to one day become strong-minded influential men in society.

• Reality Check Mentoring has adopted a critical mentoring approach. Critical mentoring is focused on the development of critical consciousness in mentors and mentees (Weiston-Serdan, 2015). Critical consciousness is the ability to perceive and understand social, political, and economic oppression; to be able to deal with such issues, and to be ready to take action against oppressive elements of society. Beginning with an understanding of youth context, critical mentoring allows the mentoring relationship to focus on providing mentees with opportunities to reflect, discuss, as well as challenge systems of inequity. (Guide to Mentoring Boys and Young Men of Color)

• A longitudinal study of the informal mentoring relationships of 354 rural African-American high school seniors found that mentoring relationships with more instrumental and emotional support and affectively positive interactions predicted less anger, rule-breaking behavior, and aggression in youth about one year later.(http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10464-011-9425-2)