Mentoring Sessions

Our mentoring sessions have three distinct aspects: our Grindtime Center, social-emotional workshops, and our Brothers Reading Together (BRT) literary circle.

Brothers@ Grindtime Center runs twice a week during 9th period at Kingston High School (KHS). The goal of the center is to ensure there is a space for our mentees to connect with BAB mentors, as well as to get assistance with homework, college applications, access to school supplies, and the opportunity to check-in and talk about life with their college mentors.

Brothers@ has launched a soft pilot of a literacy program called “Brothers Reading Together” (BRT). Brothers Reading Together seeks to create spaces of dialogue and discovery through text for YMOC and by supporting our YMOC understanding of self, the human condition, and literacy. By doing this, we hope to increase interest in reading outside of the classroom and to bolster emotional and intellectual engagement with culturally relevant text.

College Tour Series

Each year, Brothers@ offers at least four official college tours. These tours give our mentees a first-hand look into the realm of higher education. For many of our mentees, this is their first chance to step foot on a college campus. These tours take students into classrooms and dorms and give them the opportunity to eat lunch at one of the dining halls with their collegiate brothers.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a brief pause in school tours, we intend to resume the series later this year.

Summers At ramapo

Since the start of the pandemic, Brothers@ Kingston High School mentees had the opportunity to work directly with elementary school students—facilitating group activities and sessions in and outside the classroom—all on Ramapo's beautiful, 250-acre campus.

As a part of their summer employment, our mentors and mentees have taken college-credit bearing courses designed to teach skills necessary to working with youth in inclusive programs. This includes youth navigating learning differences, attention issues, and sensory sensitivities, as well as those on the autism spectrum.