Youth Mentor

BCNC

For more than 50 years, BCNC has been providing new immigrants, especially Asians, with the support and resources they need to thrive in the United States. With deep roots in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood, BCNC now serves people from three locations in Greater Boston and the South Shore. Its holistic, family-centered programs reach 13,000 children, youth, and adults each year, setting them up for success in school, work and life. BCNC also builds vibrant communities through Pao Arts Center, along with its collaborations and research.

Job Description

BCNC's College Access Program (CAPS) supports Asian youth who are the first in their families to go to college, and many of whom are immigrant English language learners, by providing them with one-on-one mentorship, college tours, workshops on financial aid, standardized test preparation, and more.

For the past four years, 100% of our high school seniors were accepted to colleges with financial aid. As a mentor, you volunteer your time to create a safe and inclusive space that centers your young person, and helps them explore their future goals in the ways most meaningful to them.

Mentor matches are around a year in length, starting in a youth’s spring semester of their junior year, and continuing until the end of the youth’s spring semester of their senior year. Mentors will meet with their mentees every two weeks for at least an hour at a time in their junior year and over the summer. Mentors can meet with their mentees either virtually or in-person.