The Mentoring Center provides technical assistance and training to approximately 50-85 mentoring efforts, and direct mentor training to 1,700-2,500 volunteers and program staff annually. TMC’s technical assistance and training services are tailored for organizations such as school districts, individual local schools (k-12), colleges and universities, juvenile detention facilities, faith-based organizations, community based organizations, municipal/public institutions, and private businesses.
As a direct service provider, TMC serves between 90-130 adjudicated and incarcerated youth between the ages of 13-25 annually through two intensive mentoring and intervention efforts: The Transition Program and the Positive Minds Group. In response to overwhelming requests to conduct our programs at other locations, TMC began the Positive Minds Group On-Location program, a condensed form of our services conducted at local schools and community centers. TMC also leads the City of Oakland’s two initiatives that serve youth offenders, Pathways to Change and Project Choice.

The Mentoring Center’s Youth Services Division specializes in working with the most highly at-risk youth, those youth who are no longer simply at-risk but immersed in their risk behaviors.

The Mentoring Center’s services include:

The provision of technical assistance and training to the Boards, staff and mentors of diverse youth mentoring program

The Transformative Intervention Institute, an intensive three day training for organizations serving youth offenders and highly at-risk youth

The Mentoring Institute for Trainers and Managers, a training of trainers course TMC teaches at UC Berkeley.

The development, field-testing and evaluation of new mentoring models for underserved youth populations.

Raising public awareness about mentoring and encouraging individuals to volunteer as mentors.

Conducting direct service programs for highly at-risk youth.