Mentor. Educator. Creator.
Founder
Mr. G. Richardson LLC
Bridging The Gap, Inc.
Proud Defender and Curator of #BlackBoyJoy
#MentoringMatters
Designing Mentoring Communities for Boys of Color
Our Mentoring Communities connect youth and adults most proximal to a school's problem with peer mentors, trained & equipped with the proper supports to improve desired outcomes. Mr. G specializes in designing mentoring communities with schools & organizations who have shown a vested interest in improving the outcomes for boys of color and toddlers born into low income families.
Our mentoring communities have shown to significantly decrease chronic absenteeism rates and improve on track credit accumulation for high school student participants. Click the button below to learn more About Mr. G and his work.
Our Mentoring Communities
My Brother's Keeper (MBK)
What would a school look like if it built a peer mentoring community for its most at-risk boys of color? In the fall of 2016, a public high school in Queens, NY sought to answer this very question. With our support, in one year, the collective gains of the boys were newsworthy, even grabbing the attention of former NYCDOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña. Come learn more about how to bring MBK to your campus.
Bridging the gap, inc. (BTG)
The parent is the first teacher of the child; however, we seldom ask who is the first teacher of the parent. BTG addresses that very question by designing with parents a Parent Learning Community where parents can receive peer coaching, resources, tools and support from a collection of parents committed to closing the Thirty Million Word Gap: the greatest crisis in early childhood development today.
Parenting PRactices
As a parent of young children, we understand your time is precious and very limited. In an effort to keep you connected to our Parent Learning Communities, we invite you to follow our Parenting Practices blog. Here you can be a member of a PLC virtually, learning and informing yourself about proven and innovative practices that support early literacy development with their young ones.
What We Offer
Programming Consultation
We are prepared to design with you a mentoring community to meet the needs of your boys of color or parents with young children. Our mentoring initiatives utilize an evidence-based framework and structured activities uniquely curated to support your school or organization's vision and goals in the short and long term. We look forward to building these safe spaces with you and within your buildings.
Workshops
Our workshops are designed to provide applicable strategies and tools for your school community in order to improve the outcomes of boys of color and/or enhance at-home engagement levels of your parents with young children. Whether a school district leader, school administrator, teacher, student, youth advocate or community-based organization, we are ready to design action-oriented workshops for your stakeholders.
Design Or Volunteer With Us.
Use the form below to follow our mentoring work and to contact us to begin designing a mentoring community for your school or district. Please be as detailed as possible when discussing the problem you are attempting to solve. You may also email or call us to make an appointment or inquiry.
In 2014, President Obama launched My Brother's Keeper to ensure all young people are able to reach their full potential. Since then, over 174,000 people have signed up to join the movement and mentor. Join Mentor: The National Mentoring Partnership
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