Become a Volunteer Youth Mentor!

Looking for a volunteering opportunity in the Scarborough area? Consider serving as a youth mentor as part of our Together We Can program.

As a mentor, you’ll work with Black, African, and Caribbean youth, providing guidance, encouragement, and life skills support. This is a meaningful volunteer mentorship role that helps young people build confidence, reach their goals, and strengthen their cultural identity.

What is the Together We Can Youth Mentorship Program?

The Together We Can Youth Mentorship Program is a free program that supports high-risk Black, African, and Caribbean youth, ages 15 to 25, by helping them to make healthy and safe life choices. The program aims to help improve emotional well-being and support the positive development of youth participants by increasing access to consistent, caring adults who will support them to pursue and achieve goals and successful outcomes related to:

• Education
• Employment or entrepreneurship
• Civic engagement
• Leadership
• Cultural identity

The program’s activities are culturally focused with an anti-Black racism lens to assist youth in developing positive life skills, resiliency, and overcoming barriers to their success, including systemic racism. Activities include:

• Group mentoring with peers
• Workshops, events, and field trips
• Cultural projects
• Community activities
• Academic and employment support

The overall goal of this program is to eliminate outcome disparities seen in areas such as high school graduation rates, post-secondary education attendance, and employment rates, and to improve the emotional well-being of its youth participants. The Youth Mentorship Program aims to achieve this by providing:

• A sense of belonging and community
• A strong cultural identity
• Advocacy skills to aid in increasing and encouraging civic engagement and leadership skills

How Does Volunteer Youth Mentorship Work?
Tropicana hosts, along with our mentors, activities that are culturally aligned, with an anti-Black racism focus, helping youth build confidence, acquire life skills, and overcome potential barriers, including systemic racism. Activities include but are not limited to:

• Group mentoring
• Workshops, events, and field trips
• Cultural projects
• Community activities
• Academic and employment support 

Requirements Volunteer Youth Mentorship Position

• • 25 years or older.
  • Have knowledge of issues faced by Black, African, and Caribbean youth.
  • Police clearance to work with the vulnerable sector.
  • Able to commit to 1 year of weekly contact with your mentee.
  • Able to attend orientation, training, ongoing workshops, and special functions.
  • Able to initiate or attend community events for mentees.
  • Able to provide timely reports and monthly check-ins.
  • Willing to adhere to Health & Safety protocols.

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