This guide seeks to help organizations as they align their mentoring approach with best practices and strategies that promote responsive, identity-affirming, strengths-based mentoring relationships with BIPOC girls and young women.
This mentoring guide incorporates information about what Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) young women and girls, aged 14 to 25 years, have indicated is important to them for inclusion in their mentoring programs. It also provides additional resources that are geared toward mentoring programs seeking to implement best practices for the sustainable support of BIPOC girls. The guide outlines the Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project process, key findings, and ideas for action, with the goal of guiding effective and culturally responsive mentoring programs. The key themes discussed are: safety, community, mental health, networking, peer support, respectability politics, self-advocacy, and confidence.