Mentor Training

BTM recruits and assigns one mentor (adult man) for each young man who goes through the rite of passage weekend.

There is a mandatory 48-hour mentor-training program that all mentors must complete prior to the weekend.

Each mentor commits to attend community meetings with his mentee for one full year.

Each mentor must pass an FBI background check.

The mentor's purpose is to guide, support and help reinforce new, healthy male behaviors.

Are You The One?

Initially, many of our mentors had some fears, which subsided after mentor training and experiencing the power of the initiation weekend. The joys of mentoring teach you many things: How to listen, without giving your own fantastic advice. How to be a better parent to your own children. What it's like to be in the middle of adolescence and how to make a difference in a young man's life.

It is amazing how innocent and tender these young men are. They are eager for this kind of attention and admiration from older men.

Mentoring is fun, it's fulfilling, and it is desperately needed. Here is your opportunity to help one young man down a successful path to adulthood.

Other Ways You Can Help

If you are unable to become a mentor in the Boys To Men Mentoring Network, there are other ways you can help support this vital cause. You can tell a friend about our organization. You can volunteer your time, skills, and energy - we always need help! Or, you can send your fully tax deductible check to:

Step forward and make a difference. Call us today at (800) 440-2803 for a challenging and inspiring adventure aimed at empowering each man to develop a mission of self, and a mission of service.

• Are you afraid you don't have what it takes?
  We will help you.
• Are you concerned you don't know how to mentor?
  We will mentor you.
• Is your life so busy that you don't have time for our boys?
  Simplify. Live your mission!
• Do you know of a man ready to be a mentor?

We also have many volunteer opportunities for men who choose not to mentors. We need your special skill or talent!

If the mature men of the the world don't take care of our boys, who will?

We need men to walk with them, talk with them, and model healthy masculine energies. We need men willing to spend 3 hours every other week to bring these boys to our I group meetings locations throughout Chicago. We have fun, have a barbecue, go bowling and give our young men a place where they can talk about their feelings and what's going on in their lives. This is the only place these young men can sort out what is going on inside them. This is the most important part of our program. Is is wonderful to see the changes in the young men after six months in the groups.

This program will not work without your help.