Youth Mentoring

“I2P Dreamchasers” provide a group forum every Wednesday 4pm, where boys and men go around the room and discuss their problems and challenges.  The mentors contribute by sharing the mistakes and poor choices they made as teenagers, and use their experience to help boys avoid making the same mistakes.

1. We build communities of men who model what it takes to be a good man. 

2. We don’t tell boys how to be good men; we show them. 

3. We don’t give advice or lectures. We simply tell boys how, when we were teenagers, we dealt with the very same issues they face. The lessons we learned, and the price we paid for our mistakes. 

4. We create trust by telling the truth about our struggles as men. This gives the boys permission to talk about the struggles they face on their journey to manhood. 

5. We praise boys for their unique gifts and support them when they screw up. 

6. We ask boys what kind of man they want to be, and encourage and support them on their journey to become that good man.