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Royal Mentoring Group exemplifies how mentoring and community involvement can make a real difference, to help reduce teen gang violence by providing mentoring services to at-risk youth. Our programming aims to inspire and equip young individuals with the skills and mindset to pursue mental wellbeing and entrepreneurship, steering them away from the dangers of criminal activities.

Core Responsibilities

1. Youth Mentoring & Relationship Building

• Establish and maintain positive, consistent, and professional mentoring relationships with assigned youth.
• Build relationships through authenticity, consistency, trust, respect, and active listening.
• Use personal and professional experiences appropriately to help youth feel understood and supported.
• Serve as a positive role model and demonstrate healthy decision-making, accountability, resilience, and personal growth.
• Help youth identify their strengths, interests, values, and aspirations.
• Support youth in navigating challenges related to school, family, peer relationships, employment, community involvement, and personal development.
• Maintain appropriate professional boundaries while building authentic connections with participants.

2. Lived Experience & Authentic Engagement

RMG recognizes lived experience as a valuable form of expertise. Community-Based Mentors may bring personal experience navigating systems or circumstances that are relevant to the youth and communities RMG serves. Mentors are expected to:

• Use lived experience intentionally and appropriately to strengthen relationships with youth.
• Share personal experiences when doing so is relevant, safe, and beneficial to the participant.
• Use lived experience to demonstrate hope, resilience, accountability, and the possibility of positive change.
• Avoid centering their own experiences or assuming that a participant's experience is the same as theirs.
• Recognize the difference between sharing experience and giving advice.
• Respect each young person's individual identity, choices, culture, and lived experience.
• Use personal experience to build connections without creating dependency or inappropriate emotional relationships.
• Maintain professional boundaries when discussing personal experiences.
• Understand that lived experience compliments professional responsibilities, training, supervision, and organizational protocols.

3. Youth Engagement & Retention

• Conduct consistent outreach and follow-up with assigned participants.
• Encourage youth participation in RMG programs, mentoring sessions, workshops, and community activities.
• Meet youth where they are and identify barriers that may affect participation.
• Use authentic relationship-building strategies to help youth remain connected to services.
• Celebrate participant progress, accomplishments, and positive milestones.

4. Goal Development & Skill Building

• Assist youth in identifying short- and long-term educational, employment, career, and personal goals.
• Help participants develop individualized action plans.
• Connect youth to opportunities that support education, employment, leadership, career exploration, life skills, and positive community involvement.
• Help youth develop communication, decision-making, problem-solving, conflict resolution, organization, and job-readiness skills.
• Encourage youth to take ownership of their goals and decisions.

5. Community-Based Support & Advocacy

• Help participants navigate educational, workforce, behavioral health, housing, and other community resources.
• Support youth in accessing appropriate services and opportunities.
• Advocate for youth needs within the scope of the mentor's role.
• Collaborate with schools, families, community organizations, and service providers when authorized and appropriate.
• Leverage knowledge of community systems and personal experience to help youth navigate barriers more effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Lived experience that provides meaningful insight into the challenges, systems, or circumstances experienced by the youth RMG serves.
• Experience working with youth, young adults, families, schools, or community-based programs.
• Experience in mentoring, youth development, education, workforce development, behavioral health, case management, social services, or a related field.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to engage youth who may be disconnected from traditional systems or services.
• Understanding of trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and strengths-based approaches.
• Ability to establish trust while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
• Familiarity with community resources and youth-serving systems.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining communication with the RMG team.
• Reliable transportation and ability to travel to approved community and program locations, when required.
• Bilingual or multilingual skills are a plus.

A degree or formal credential is not required when equivalent knowledge, skills, and lived experience demonstrate the ability to successfully perform the role.

Core Competencies

The successful Community-Based Mentor will demonstrate:

• Authenticity: Builds relationships through genuine connection and transparency.
• Lived Experience: Uses personal experience as a source of empathy, insight, credibility, and hope while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
• Relationship Building: Develops trusting and respectful relationships with young people.
• Youth-Centered Practice: Centers youth voice, choice, strengths, and goals.
• Cultural Responsiveness: Respects the diverse identities, experiences, cultures, and backgrounds of participants.
• Reliability: Consistently follows through on commitments.
• Communication: Communicates clearly and effectively with youth, families, staff, and partners.
• Boundaries & Ethics: Understands how to appropriately separate personal experience from professional responsibilities.
• Resilience & Accountability: Models personal responsibility, growth, and the ability to learn from challenges.
• Community Connection: Understands and utilizes community resources and relationships to support youth.