Mentors for Urban Young Adult Workforce Development Program

Save to Favorites

Year Up's mission is to close the Opportunity Divide by providing urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support that will empower them to reach their potential through professional careers and higher education. Our students are age 18-24 and have a high school diploma or GED but are otherwise disconnected from the economic mainstream, some of the 200,000 young adult New Yorkers who are out of school and out of work.

Mentoring is an integral part of the support we provide our students. Year Up carefully matches each student to a mentor who is a working professional about two months before the students begin their corporate internships.

Year Up provides an orientation and support to mentors and organizes events that mentors and mentees can attend together. Year Up uses the iMentor Interactive online system to match and monitor the mentor/mentee relationships. Mentors are matched to mentees of their same gender.

Our Mentors:
* Provide additional support as students transition from Year Up to their internship
* Encourage continuous learning and problem solving
* Assist in building and accessing professional networks
* Assist in reviewing resumes and college applications