Graig Meyer, a North Carolina House of Representatives Member and Co-Founder & Principal Consultant for Equity Collaborative, joined me for an interview at the 2017 MENTOR Summit. At the conference, Meyer presented a session on mentoring and #BlackLivesMatter where he discussed the nation’s race relations are impacting the mentoring movement. Meyer said that children in communities of color that are served by our mentoring programs are very aware of what’s happening in the world around them, particularly around police involved shootings, and it’s no longer enough for these programs to help students navigate a broken system.
“We have to find a way for mentoring program to help fix the system,” he said. “And that’s a change for mentoring programs…Thinking about mentoring as systemic advocacy is going to take some work.”
Click this link below to learn more about how Meyer recommends this important work can be done by mentoring programs that are ready to change their focus from navigational assistance, to fixing the systems they are operating inside.
