Hispanic Mentors

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Comment by Dr. Daniel F. Flores on February 9, 2011 at 6:46pm

We recently launched The Dream & Go Center, a not-for-profit 501c3, in Fort Worth, Texas. We offer free community services such as ESL, basic computer skills, nutrition, and youth mentoring with guitar lessons. One of our goals is to foster a college-going culture among Hispanic/Latin@ youth. To that end, we will begin offering after-school tutoring/mentoring to the program. The center is located in an impoverished neighborhood and 100% of our clientele are Hispanics. We gladly welcome partnership with educational or corporate institutions interested in mentoring at-risk youth. Please contact me directly for details.

Comment by Reymundo Rocha Jr on October 22, 2010 at 10:46am

Yesterday I was informed that my nephew was in the hospital with blood clots. My immediate reaction was to go and see him. After the 7.5 hour trip I found that he had numerous blood clots in his lungs and his right leg for no medical apparent reason. As the evening came, we found some private time that we could talk. To my alarming surprise, I discovered he did not believe in GOD!. My purpose of this writing is that we must assist and ensure that in our counseling and or communication with our youth that we find a way in which we can introduce the subject of God. If introduced correctly you will find that it will assist in resolving or adressing numrous other issues and perhaps diverting potential pitfalls. I thank you for your time, Rey

Comment by Maria Caratini on March 28, 2010 at 2:23pm

As all of you work with Hispanic students, here is a blog that you may be interested in: http://hispanictalentmemo.com

Hispanic Talent Memo is an excellent resource of timely information on college students and the workforce. Look into the blog, which many of us have discovered on NSHP.

Comment by Eva Fontanez on March 5, 2010 at 7:07am

I'm the Advisor of "Orgullo Latino" Club (OLC) at Raritan Valley Community College. This is the Latino Student Organization which was founded by myself back in 1992. I act as a Mentor to these students, and my purpose is to make them into great Student Leaders while they're in College and great Future Leaders in whatever road they take after College. One of our most proud projects we have founded is the C.R.E.C.E.R. Program (Caring, Reaching, Educating, Connecting, Enriching, & Reaping). This is our High School Outreach Program, where OLC brings in local Latino high school juniors and seniors for a 1-day college experience. The entire event is pay by OLC Budget and Fundraisers. We also offer scholarship money to participants of CRECER. Many of our OLC students are product of CRECER. My students act as Mentors to these high schoolers, which is the main reason this program is so effective. This will be our 12th year. This year our CRECER Program will be held on April 6, 2010 at Raritan Valley Community College in Somerville, NJ. We are hoping to host over 100 Latino high schoolers and let them know how important it is to have a college education. If you'd like more information you can contact me at efontane@raritanval.edu.

Comment by Jennie Beltz on December 4, 2009 at 9:28am

I am a graduate student in counseling psychology and previously worked as a school psychologist with a hispanic population of children. I did an intensive research paper on hispanic adolescents and depression and the rates are alarming. Specially when it comes to teenager girls, they are more likely to suffer from depression and suicidal ideation and more likely to commit suicide than any other ethnic group including caucasians. We can't let this happen any longer! something must be done. I may only be able to reach my local community but if we all work together in this national network, maybe we can reach the whole country and change the statistics for good!!!

Comment by Angela Lopez on November 6, 2009 at 8:32am

I am involved working with Hispanic youth. I work delivering outreach programs to these children to teach them leadership to prepare them for collage, work and a better future. They need to learn skills to succeed in collage and work. I know that employers, business owners and managers need employees with more than just basic skills. I want to get more involved with the Hispanic/Latino communities to get more moms and dads involved in the education and future of their children. If anyone has any suggestions on how I should begin to get more information on persuing my dream to reach these communities, I would sure appriciate your comments. Gracias

Comment by Johnny Silvas on May 18, 2009 at 7:55pm

Dr. Diaz,

I hope you can open up the link below!
http://conchovalleyhomepage.com/content/fulltext/?cid=5406

West Texas C.R.E.O. we started here locally and it is growing like wildfire.
I encourage each and everyone to start one if you haven't already done so.

Muchas Gracias!

Johnny Silvas
info@johnnysilvas.com
www.johnnysilvas.com
San Angelo, Texas

Comment by Dr. Ivonne Diaz-Claisse on May 18, 2009 at 5:28pm

"SHARING OUR STORIES: A Powerful Gesture"

I recently received the following letter from a student I visited as part of our HISPA Role Model program in New Jersey. It shows how HISPA is making a difference in our communities and the great impact we have when we share our stories.

The letter was handwritten and read like this:

Dear Dr. Diaz,

I appreciate the encouragement you have given to all of us, but I specially thank you, because I have been enlighten. Before our meetings I was insecure regarding college; part of me has always wanted to go, yet the other part of me opposed. I have been enlightened, and my internal opposition has been replaced with dreams that I MUST fulfill. The conferences support you have given us has helped me overcome my insecurities and my fears regarding college. I appreciate the knowledge you have bestowed upon me, because it has helped me to acquire my first dream, which is to go to college no matter what.
Thank you for your support,
Sincerely,
Student Signature

For more information about HISPA, please visit: www.hispa.org.

Comment by Sonia Jimenez on April 10, 2009 at 12:51pm

Hello all. I very much enjoy being involved with the youth. I have been for many years mentoring teens and directing them in positive ways. Though as we know many will listen, some will take what you say and run with it and take for what they think it is and a few will just feel they are not ready to take responsabilities for their futures at the present time. But that does not give me the reason to give up. As my own kids would say "mom, though you lecture us for a long time, and will would get bored many of those times you still make lots of sense plus we appreciate it because you give us that motivation and incentive to believe in ourselves and that anything we choose to do in life it can be possible". My children are the example of what I preach. Though they are living home they are doing their thing. My 22 year old daughter has an Associates in Criminal Justice, my 19 year old is starting school now in May for a Bachelors in Nursing(RN) and my son 18 starting September for a BS in Business. Plus, I adopted a 22 year old boy who was nothing but trouble for mom and turned him into a Real Estate Agent (by pushing him and being on top of his up and downs with incentives and motivation) now going on 6 month and he's looking forward to being a Broker. Not only am I a proud mom and I am also blessed with having the resources and knowledge to help other youths in my community.

Comment by Jenny on April 8, 2009 at 5:37pm

Hola Ricardo,
Let me know if I can help mentoring a young professional, or recent Hispanic immigrant in US, who is looking to build a career in the Communications, Marketing, Media or PR field.
Warm Regards,
Jenny

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