Tag: Mentoring

The Current Conversation on Mentorship for Boys Excludes Responsible Fatherhood

Any national conversation about boys and men that does not center fatherhood risks misdiagnosing the problem and misdirecting the response.

Framing mentorship as a corrective for father absence must be handled with care. When mentoring programs are positioned as replacements for fathers rather than complements to parental involvement, they unintentionally reinforce a deficit narrative.

The Force Still Moves: One Year Without Lawrence Wilbon

Lawrence Wilbon reminded us that love is a verb. Faith, he’d say, was something you walked out with your boots on the ground. And from lifting fathers to strengthening families, from building systems to planting seeds, Lawrence gave everything he had, without asking anything in return.