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There’s a youth that aspires to be where you are! Share your skills.

The Ladder 2 Rise mentorship program creates a space for Impact. Mentors have an opportunity to work with a youth who can benefit from their guidance and expertise as they navigate to their next steps. It’s a two way street where mentors will be enriched, enhance their leadership skills and have a space to positively impact the life of a youth.
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Youth Success 1:1 Mentor
Share your expertise and experience. Support a youth who dreams of a brighter future.

As a Ladder 2 Rise Mentor, you have the unique opportunity to Inspire our youth and change their lives. Our youth are excited for what the future holds and looking for an inspiring, driven advocate and change maker like you to help them on their journey. You will have the opportunity to share your knowledge, expertise, life experiences, network and so much more with our youth.

Guess what? Along the way you will have a front row seat to celebrate your mentee’s small yet big successes, build special connections and set them on their path. Your Mentee looks to you as their role model of success and is excited for you to take them under your wings, so that they can soar to their greatest potential.
Youth Event Day Experience Mentor
Share your knowledge, journey and participate as a subject matter expert or volunteer for event days.

As an event day subject matter expert and experience mentor, you will have the opportunity to share your journey and expertise with our youth. Beit participation as a panelist for intimate conversations sharing your expertise by facilitating a workshop, or extending your support to the overall youth experience for the day – Your impact will be great! It’s all hands on deck for event day and we lean on your contributions to make a life long impact for all youth that walk through the door. Our youth walk away inspired, curious and excited for what is to come!

We are happy to work with you to assess how your unique skill sets may be of value to our youth.
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Youth Readiness and Preparation Mentor
Share your expertise and experience. Support a youth who dreams of a brighter future.Support a youth with job readiness and preparation to enable their success in landing their next experiential (co-op/intern) or paid employment job opportunity!

Share your skills by supporting our youth to put their best foot forward. Our youth need your help to ensure they are set up for success. By sharing your expertise to support them with creating, reviewing their resumes, helping them with their application, role playing with them to help them prepare for their interviews – there are countless ways your mentee will need your support. As a youth readiness and preparation mentor, you will have the unique opportunity to help your mentee to put it all together.

Beit helping them with their very first job application, sharing tips and tricks to prepare them or simply giving them a pep talk when needed – they know you are on their team cheering them on!!
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“In my dreams, every youth wakes up excited to conquer a world of possibility irrespective of their beautifully interwoven identities. Ladder 2 Rise is about community, it is about each of us and the roles and responsibility we each have to create an inclusive, equitable and kind world so that our youth realize it is no longer a dream but their much deserved reality”.
Ruth Nyaamine
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Frequently Asked Questions

What Is Ladder 2 Rise?

Ladder 2 Rise is a connector – with primary goal of connecting Youth to Corporate Partners, Community Partners, and Guardians. At Ladder 2 Rise, we believe that we all play a critical role in our youths’ support wheel, and we will support as an anchor to Lift, Inspire, Fuel and Empower our youth, so that together, we can truly RISE as a community. With an emphasis on Diversity and Inclusion, the program centers on ensuring inclusion of all youth irrespective of their intersectional identifies, culture, race, gender or other. The Ladder 2 Rise Program is designed with three key programming elements to include Lift and Inspire through annual Take a Youth to work Day program, centered on youth exposure to the available careers and streams. Our aim is to ignite our youths’ curiosity and guide them towards the many possibilities that exist. Our second pillar is Fuel and Nourish, centered on providing ongoing mentorship to our youth, fuelling and nourishing them with information, resources, guidance and support, focused to youth in grades 10-12. Our last programming pillar is Empower and Soar – focused to providing the bridge for youth transitioning out of secondary school (high school). This pillar aims to provide entry points and access to summer, winter, co-op and or other placement alternatives for both paid and education based programming.

Who Can Participate In The Ladder 2 Rise Program?

At Ladder 2 Rise, our aim is to provide a seat at the table for every youth irrespective of their intersectional identity, ensuring that all youth have an elevated sense of belonging. The program is targeted to three stages in a youth’s progressive steps to include the following pillars:

Pillar 1 Lift & Inspire (Take a Youth to Work Day event) – Open to youth in Grade 9

Pillar 2 Fuel & Nourish (Mentorship) – Open to youth in Grades 10 – 12

Pillar 3 Empower & Soar (Access) -Open to youth exploring opportunities after secondary school (high school) – This can include access to winter, summer employment and or co-op opportunities.

Ladder 2 Rise Sounds Like A Great Program! How Do We Become A Partner?

Thank you for your interest in joining us as we take steps to hold up the ladder for our youth. Our Corporate and Community Partners are critical pieces to our youths’ support wheel. We appreciate your interest in the program and look forward to connecting with you. Please contact us at info@ladder2rise.com with a request for a consultation and a member of our Ladder 2 Rise team will be in touch to support next steps.

How Is The Ladder 2 Rise Program Different From The Many New  Opportunities Arising That Raises Awareness Of BIPOC Youth?

We applaud the various community efforts to create opportunities for our youth. At Ladder 2 Rise, our key differentiator is our focus to inclusion, centered on ensuring seats at the table for all youth irrespective of their intersectional identity. The program allows for progressive visibility to our youth throughout their formative adolescent years – with programming pillars from Grade 9 to transition from secondary school. Further, the program ensures tangible actions to create meaningful seats and points of entry for youth, thereby shifting from the traditional model of tools, resources to providing actual seats to support youth as they navigate. With focused audience within the child welfare and education streams, our aim is to cast the net as wide as possible, identifying the youth that need us the most, Lifting, Inspiring, Fuelling and Empowering them as they navigate through L.I.F.E.

What Systems And/ Or Processes Are In Place To Ensure That Privacy And Confidentiality Of Youth Information Is Protected?

Ladder 2 Rise recognizes the importance of privacy and confidentiality, with our primary focus to ensure the protection of youth during program participation. With this in mind, we’ve taken extensive steps to include integration of Privacy and Confidentiality guidelines for all participating corporate sponsors, mentors, volunteers and core team. All support personnel who may have occasion to come in contact with youth (event day or mentorship) must have completed a criminal background check and/ or vulnerable sector clearance for one-on-one mentorship of a youth. Risk and privacy guidelines including data collection, usage and dissemination has been reviewed by child welfare agency privacy officer to ensure compliance. Privacy guidelines are shared to all participating Community Partners to ensure sign off and their satisfaction. Added measures have been taken to ensure overall protection of all, to include integration of terms and conditions as well as confidentiality waivers, a condition of program participation.

Is The Ladder 2 Rise Program Offered In French?

Inclusion from a language perspective is important to the Ladder 2 Rise team. With that said, 2021 programming will be facilitated in English. We look forward to offering the program in French in the future.
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