Education and Community
My Brother's Keeper Symposium
Special | 2m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
The first annual My Brother’s Keeper Symposium at Hudson Valley Community College.
Troy City School District, in collaboration with Hudson Valley Community College, hosted the first annual My Brother’s Keeper Symposium for middle school youth in the program. The symposium featured a keynote presentation by Dr. Alfredo Medina, and workshops for parents and youth about educational opportunities at Hudson Valley.
Education and Community
My Brother's Keeper Symposium
Special | 2m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Troy City School District, in collaboration with Hudson Valley Community College, hosted the first annual My Brother’s Keeper Symposium for middle school youth in the program. The symposium featured a keynote presentation by Dr. Alfredo Medina, and workshops for parents and youth about educational opportunities at Hudson Valley.
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- Part of what I want to talk today about the choices that we make that are grounded in what we call intentionality.
You all made the choice to be here today.
Right.
So clearly for you to be here is because My Brother's Keeper is important.
Do you know what mentoring is?
Back there, anybody?
Someone who guides you.
Yes.
Wonderful answer.
(clapping) - Give it up to him.
Give it up to him.
- Today, we had our first annual My Brother's Keeper Troy City School District symposium.
The day was made up of a keynote speaker, Dr. Alfredo Medina.
We did a few workshops with our young men and our parents separately.
Then we did a dynamic workshop with them together.
- The youth workshop was about teaching young men professional handshakes, so that when they are a little bit older and going for an interview, they know the proper handshake.
My hope for the children that are involved in My Brother's Keeper is just to see their strengths, feel that they're cared about, and that they have someone to go to, with problems academically or socially.
- First, we talked about self-awareness and how we control our emotions and stuff like that.
And then we talked about, basically talked about the college and the courses we can take.
And the learning experiences we can have.
If we welcome to Hudson valley, I think it's amazing.
And it's a good opportunity.
- Perfect.
Where - Where is that?
Oh, so right.
Yep.
To see the arrow, the little arrow.
- Resilience, I think is one of the biggest pieces that they're learning about and also learning about support systems.
My brother's keeper is designed to address the opportunity gaps that our young men of color face, and one of the ways that they could be successful in, you know conquering these opportunity gaps is having the right supports around them.
Mentors and tutors to join alongside of their parents.
- Run from there right?
So now we have this.
- Me and Margaret both are very active parents in our children's education.
So it's just another run of the mill for us.
You know, we just want make sure that our kids are productive.
We're, we're just trying to make sure that their futures are brighter.
- Yeah.
And with programs like this, it is definitely a light at the end of the tunnel.
