We could all use a little support these days!

In the past eight months, COVID-19 has challenged parents, students, and educators with a new paradigm and reality regarding our working environment, childcare, distance learning, and balancing work and family life. This new reality has fundamentally expanded the parental role from a provider to a part-time child care worker, part-time educator, and still a full-time provider. Now more than ever, we need to support dads, moms, children, and students in this unprecedented time.

This 3-hour mini-conference will bring together local parents, advocates, groups, and professionals in order to:

• Provide support and space for conversation for parents and parent allies

• Provide insights, strategies, and tools to support families to support their children

• Amplify MENtors’ work in our community to support boys, young men, men and dads as well as parents and families

SPECIAL GIFT

Hurry, the first 50 to register will receive a free copy of The Relational Book for Parenting by Mark Greene and Dr. Saliha Bava our featured speaker: Mark Greene. Come listen to Mark Greene, author, and speaker on masculinity, share relational practices for raising children to innovate, collaborate, and connect across differences. Grow your family’s relational superpowers!

Plus a panel of local professionals:

Dr. Garry Crummer, MD Pediatrician at East Cliff Community Clinic

Rishi Lal Assistant, MA Principal at Santa Cruz High School

River Krimmer, MFT Executive Director at Living Evolution

David Stockhausen, Transformational Life Coach at Iron John Coaching

Steve Pérez, MSW School Counselor at Mission Hill Middle School

Who should attend?

Any parents, parent allies, or service providers who serve, support, and enrich the lives of young people, men, dads, families in Santa Cruz County: educators, counselors, coaches and mentors, family and child welfare advocates, psychologists, therapists, social workers, probation/parole and reentry professionals, sociologists, researchers— and of course, parents and guardians of boys and young men.

Schedule (subject to change):

• 9-9:30 am Check-in and technical support with Zoom platform

• Welcome and introduction to MENtors

• Mark Greene speaking about “How to Create Joy and Connection during Challenging Times”, followed by Q and A with Mr. Greene

• Local professionals and practitioners’ panel for insights, strategies, and tools for resiliency and connection, followed by Q and A with panelists

• Breakout small-group discussion sessions for parents

• Call to action and closing

Have Questions?

For questions about the event, speakers, schedule, or tickets, please contact Deutron at deutron@mentorsdc.org