Thrive Collective
You guessed it. Year after year, the topic that ignites the most passion in teen boys remains sex. Since October, twenty-five Young Life boys from Harlem Village Academy High School and eighteen men from New Canaan Society have met on the first and third Tuesday of every month to explore what real manhood looks like…
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Winter Break means students and mentors create memories off campus. For the second consecutive year, our HVA students and mentors enjoyed their vacation at Dave & Busters in Times Square.
read moreRaul Baez discusses overcoming adversity with the Brotherhood Fellowship Mentoring students at Harlem Village Academy (12/1/15). After a childhood marred by physical and sexual abuse, Raul ran away at thirteen, dropped out of school, began a 25 year drug addiction, and survived four near death experiences. Five years after completing a 12-year prison sentence for attempted murder,…
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The Brotherhood’s third School Mentors session yesterday at Harlem Village Academy included fingerprinting fun for the mentors, and the introduction of our Manhood Essentials core values of the Brotherhood: Reject Passivity Embrace Responsibility Serve Humbly Lead Courageously Love Sacrificially These values frame the goals of the entire program, including group talks, life skills, professional networking, and…
read moreMeet Gregory Moore, the program coordinator of the Brotherhood Fellowship Mentoring Program at Harlem Village Academy, and hear why twenty business executives are mentoring high school boys in Harlem. The Brotherhood meets for dinner the first and third Tuesday of every month, and individual pairs meet offline in alternating weeks. Our flagship School Mentors program,…
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Our School Mentors programs are expanding from Harlem and Inwood in Manhattan, to Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, Queens, in partnership with Cru High School. We have proudly supported Cru’s area director Danny Cruz in adapting the School Mentors program to fit the particular needs of the freshman class at Grover Cleveland. He launched “All…
read moreTiempo (3/29/15) Watch Manny Delgado talk about the impact of School Mentors on his life: “I cannot say that I’d be where I am today if it wasn’t for them. I’ve grown so much, even having the confidence to say hello to anybody was something I wouldn’t be able to do.” (Clip begins at 1:33)
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