The Mentoring Center

02/18/2026

Happy Black History Month! At TMC, every month is Black History and Heritage (and Culture and Futures) Month. So, join us in celebrating this and The Mentoring Center's 35TH ANNIVERSARY all year long.
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10/14/2024

Join The Mentoring Center and amazing our partners TOMORROW, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15th) from 11am to 1pm at The Mentoring Center's offices in Preservation Park. Start the process of getting your convictions dismissed, register to vote and learn more about The Mentoring Center can support you in beginning your second chance now.

10/03/2024

Learn about the work of The Mentoring Center and how our amazing team supports young people.

Thank you to The Oaklandside for sharing our story.

The Oaklandside sat down with Celsa Snead, executive director of The Mentoring Center, to learn how mentoring can intervene in and prevent violence.

01/30/2024

Join us in celebrating Baba Achebe!

We are so grateful to have been guided by the wisdom, dedication and guidance of Baba Achebe, who has served our communities for over 50 years.

His commitment to the young people who have come through The Mentoring Center has been a true blessing. Come help us honor him and his legacy.

PLEASE rsvp by emailing [email protected] or responding here.

01/17/2024

Happy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

An almost lost Dr. King speech, from the Pacifica Archives; this speech was given at the first and only National Conference for New Politics. It is an amazin...

10/18/2023

The Mentoring Center is hiring! Come join TMC's amazing team and support our youth and young adults tap into their unlimited potential and create their own transformation. We're looking for a Director of Programs, a young adult life coach/mentor and a youth life coach/mentor.

Please click on the link below to access the full position descriptions.

Current Employment OpeningsDirector of ProgramsThe Mentoring Center is hiring a Director of Programs! We are looking for a Director of Programs to lead The Mentoring Center’s direct work with youth and young adults. We are at an exciting time in our agency’s evolution, as we plan for our strateg...

05/17/2022

We're so proud of this program and of our students! Please read and share this evaluation report to learn how we all can work together to educate Black girls!

Before you join us later today at 4pm EST for our conversation about EMERGE, take a look at our just-released evaluation of the program.

The EMERGE (Educating, Mentoring, Empowering, and Reaffirming our Girls for Excellence) Reentry Program is a promising alternative education program designed for Black girls and other girls of color who have been involved in the juvenile-legal or foster care systems.

https://www.nbwji.org/post/repairing-black-girls-relationship-with-school

Research confirms that schools have protective effects on students, but many schools struggle to cultivate environments that support students’ growth and development.

For students of color, however, schools are sites where their physical, psychological, and emotional safety and wellbeing are under constant assault. This is particularly true for Black students, especially Black girls.

Consequently, Black girls—specifically those who are directly impacted by the juvenile legal system and foster care—are at heightened risk of disengaging from and being pushed out of school.

The EMERGE Program operates from the belief that preparing Black girls who have been involved in the juvenile-legal or foster care systems for educational and employment success requires also addressing their mental and emotional wellbeing.

EMERGE’s program model integrates educational assistance and accelerated credit accrual with intensive mental wellness and crisis intervention services to create a learning environment organized around its students’ specialized and complex needs. These elements work together to repair students’ connections with learning and academic achievement.

NBWJI’s process evaluation found that EMERGE successfully implemented strategies to repair Black girls’ bonds with school and restore a commitment to their educational success

EMERGE also implemented promising strategies to build pathways to college and employment for system-impacted Black girls that were hampered by external forces.

05/06/2022

The EMERGE Program, spearheaded by The Mentoring Center, is a new promising educational approach designed to

➡️ dismantle pathways to school disengagement & confinement

➡️ build pathways to college & careers for Black girls & other girls of color who have been involved in the juvenile-legal or foster care systems

Join us for this 5/17 conversation about EMERGE, our evaluation of the program, and how re-engaging girls who have been impacted by youth detention or the foster care system can put them on a path toward safety, stability, wellbeing, & success in adulthood

https://bit.ly/RepairSchoolRelationship

03/31/2022

We're ending Women's History Month by recognizing EMERGE - an educational program of The Mentoring Center that helps girls and young women graduate from high school and go on to pursue college and/or careers.

EMERGE provides a healing, culturally-rooted learning environment for our students and support and community for our alumni. Learn about EMERGE and support our wonderful girls and young women! https://mentor.org/emerge/

Follow EMERGE on Instagram at

Happy Women's History Month!

11/30/2021

This , Give to Greatness by supporting The Mentoring Center's young people!

10/22/2021

We're so grateful to continue to be part of the MBK network in support of our boys and young men!

Founded in 1991, The Mentoring Center (TMC) was created to serve as a technical assistance and training provider for Bay Area mentoring programs, and expanded to provide direct services soon thereafter.

12/01/2020

Giving Tuesday is here! For many organizations, provides an opportunity for organizations engage donors and supporters by uplifting the powerful work we are doing.

On this year, The Mentoring Center is launching our 30th Days to 30 Years to begin our march to our 30th anniversary in January 2021. Every Tuesday of this month, we will highlight one of TMC's core programs. You'll have the opportunity to learn about each program and its impact, support programs directly, and meet some of our amazing youth and young adults who share why each program has so important to their transformation. Connect with us throughout December and learn how your donations:
• Support a young woman who has struggled with her education, but now is working hard to graduate from high school.
• Help boys and young men develop their leadership, skills, confidence, and positive self-identity.
• Keep youth and young adults safe by supporting violence prevention through mentoring and personal and community transformation.
• Expand The Mentoring Center's impact by supporting the Transformative Mentoring training and technical assistance we provide to youth-serving agencies and institutions, nationally.
• Make sure that our youth continue to have a safe space where they are loved and encouraged, where they are connected to caring adults, and where they have an opportunity to learn, grow and thrive.
This year, with COVID-19, the exposed racial injustices, the economic crisis, and the resulting increase in violence, our youth need your support more than ever.

You can contribute to one of our core programs directly, or to The Mentoring Center overall work. (Just indicate how you want your donation dedicated.) Funds raised will go directly to support youth and their families. Please consider a donation of any amount today and throughout December, and help our youth realize their innate greatness and unlimited potential!

Donate here: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1429363

Thank you for your generosity and support.

With gratitude,

The Mentoring Center