Isaac Murphy Summit

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Advocate ALPHA PHI ALPHAAdvocate RAY DANIELSSupporter MYRON BIDDLE Supporter WAFFLE HOUSE

Ally URBAN COUNTY COUNCILMAN JAMES BROWN Ally URBAN LEAGUE

Presenter: FCPS Educating Boys of Color

Fayette County Public Schools believes it takes an entire community to ensure the success of our schools. We are committed to providing educational excellence for ALL students and we understand achieving equity requires strategic decision-making to remedy opportunity gaps and create barrier-free learning environments. The Office of Equity, School Support, and Community Engagement seeks to support the implementation of proven concepts through mentoring, fostering cultural awareness, and male engagement strategies.

Group Mentoring is a strategy for connecting small groups of adult men to mentor a larger

group of boys to foster empowerment through positive self-image, social and academic

achievement, and civic engagement.

WHAT

• To reduce involvement in at-risk behavior.• Serve as role models, advocates, and advisers.• Help students persist to graduation.• Help improve the self-esteem and awareness of young people.Overall, mentees are more likely to be successful!

WHY

PAST2012

One School | One Volunteer | Seven Mentees

PRESENT2018

12 Programs | 24 Volunteers | 225 Mentees

GOALPer Year Increase

+2 Programs | +4 Volunteers | +10 Mentees

SUCCESS

Qualitative Attendance| Behavior | Curriculum

QuantitativeCareer Focused | Leadership Roles | Engaged

MENTOR GROUP, LOCATION, and LEAD MENTOR• Boys to Men, Beaumont: Anthony Wilson

• Alpha League, Bryan Station: Christian Adair• Make Me into a Man (3M), Crawford: James Bruce• The Academy Carter G. Woodson: Taquay Hairston

• My Brother’s Keeper (MBK), Hayes: Dhahran Mason• Alpha League, Jessie Clark: Obie Taylor

MENTOR GROUP, LOCATION, and LEAD MENTOR• Kappa Klub, Leestown: Leon Buford Kelley

• Operation Making a Change (OMAC),Lexington Traditional Magnet: Geo Gibson• Alpha League, Morton: Rubin Jones

• Good Brother, Southern: Brannon Dunn• Boys of Superior Standards (B.O.S.S.),

Tates Creek: Andre Thomas• Ubuntu, Winburn: Antonio Allen

We are BOYS TO MEN, Future Leaders of Tomorrow. Focusing on integrity, goal-setting, respect, and pride. Pursuing leadership, academic excellence, home, community, and school support. We have divine purpose. “Iron sharpens iron…” ~ Proverbs 27:17

OMAC is paving the way for success, one life at a time, thereby ensuring a better and brighter future. All races, all faces, from all places!

BOSS will instill in young black men a strong sense of responsibility and value for the community in which they live that causes them to go be agents of change through being a faithful husband, of selfless father, and a loving neighbor.

MBK will cultivate the social, emotional, academic and moral well-being of young African-American boys to promote confidence, humility, intellect, and leadership in our community.

3M To develop boys into honorable men, through meaning full mentoring and instructions in biblically based manhood.

MISSION & PURPOSE

UBUNTU “Preparing our young men to be successful in life, in the classroom and in work.”

KAPPA KLUB; Achievement In Every Field Of Human Endeavor... In the classrooms, in sports, and in my community. I will succeed and achieve because I believe in myself!

THE ACADEMY will cultivate the necessary tools to construct knowledge, culture, community, and manhood.

GOOD BROTHERS will stand as a model program for mentoring young men. Mission Provide mentoring to young males to enhance their social development Goals Build relationships and assist young men in developing a strong stable sense of self (Identity Development). “Each One Teach One”

ALPHA LEAGUE removes barriers and provide opportunities for success to inspire mentees to develop leadership skills through educational activities, civic engagement and character development.

MISSION & PURPOSE