To implement lessons learned from the past year’s virtual mentoring into the 2021-2022 programming, including recruiting, training and matching new mentors. 

Prevention Day Program support. 

To center youth voices, by co-creating opportunities that give youth with lived homeless experience the tools and training to effect system change, through the Kent Count Youth Action Board. 

Support for the Blue Collar Program, which provides training for young men of color seeking skilled trades careers. 

Expansion of the Adulting for Young Leaders program to include practical skills and post-high school career and learning opportunities. 

Supporting Community Based Group mentoring, which works to develop life and work skills by matching children (ages 12-15) on probation with a mentor familiar with the probation system. 

Providing language access, learning opportunities, and Deaf role models to Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing children and families in an accepting and accessible environment. 

Supporting Poetry Empowered, which utilizes poetry and spoken word workshops to empower youth to tell their stories and work through struggles in a productive and healing way. 

To transform GRPC’s youth programming by broadening mental health services and improving support to the BIPOC youth in the Grand Rapids community. 

Supporting the Rhoer Club Symposium’s SupporTEEN GR Youth program, which encourages community organizing and demonstrates how youth develop their talents in activism against social injustice. 

Increase food autonomy for families, gain knowledge of how food nourishes young adults, and empower youth to become changers and disruptors in the food system, through the FitKids360 Youth Mentor Garden. 

Supporting the Serving Knowledge Learn and Lunch meetings, which work to enhance health and wellness, financial literacy, community leadership development and self-advocacy skills. 

Equity in Education: Coding to Career program support. 

Peer educator training to provide trauma-informed mental health training to youth and adult experts in sexual health, through the wE-Care Project. 

Mentoring and tutoring program focused on academic and life enhancement skills. 

Language Links Literacy Tutoring support for students who are significantly below grade level in reading and spelling but do not qualify for Special Education services. 

Supporting the Concentric Teen Program, which connects refugee teens with local resources through mentoring relationships with New American women and friendships with Cross-Cultural Partners. 

The Dunyon Experience provides urban youth the opportunity to gain agriculture and farming skills.