Black Male Responsibility Mentoring Development: Healing Circle For Troubled Young Adult African-American Males

Black Male Responsibility Mentoring Development (BMRMD) is a strength-based psycho-education model that is gender and cultural specific. Being strength-based, BMRMD assesses the inherent strengths of young African American males including their culture of Hip-Hop and builds on them. BMRMD instills spirituality and cultural pride: it uses their personal strengths along with character development to aid in resiliency, empowerment, and delinquency prevention. Through the process of psycho-education, BMRMD seeks to reframe the perception of young Black males to be positively motivated; to find good and a chance of success even in the worst situation. BMRMD is based on the 4R’s of Reality, Responsibility, Respect, and Righteousness with the learning objectives of (1) Maturing to the facts of life, (2) Accountability and Self-Control, (3) Sense of Self-Worth and the worthiness of others, and (4) Moral conduct.

Black Male Responsibility Mentoring Development Strategy:

1. Take steps to develop trust which is the first crucial step in engaging young African American male.

2. Recognize the presence of real socioeconomic barriers to their well-being, along with the task of enhancing their individual psycho-social skills to overcome these barriers.

3. Increase young African American males understanding and appreciation of their unique history and culture that contributes to improving their self-esteem.

4. Provide them with examples of successful Black male role models and how they succeeded against all odds.

5. Assist African American male in understanding the variety of ways in which strength can be expressed; and that they are not limited to super-macho pursuits of just sports, sexing, substance abusing, and styling (shoes, clothes, jewelry).

6. Assist African American males in their understanding of how to develop a healthy relationship with African American women.

7. Have young African-American males become more aware and prepared for future opportunities and enhance their optimism.

8. Critically explore young African American males sense of leadership and instilling in them a sense of community improvement through volunteerism.

9. Regularly stress the idea of talking about responsibility, strength, character, giving, caring, sharing, and the valuing of their lives.

10. Assist young Black males in developing a sense of health maintenance with an emphasis on stress-management.

Black Male Responsibility Mentoring Development

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Healing Circle For Troubled Young Adult African-American Males

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