MENTOR Rhode Island

Explore MENTOR’s webinar series featuring practical insights and actionable strategies for mentors, practitioners, and youth-serving professionals. Topics include why mentoring LGBTQ+ youth is an urgent call to action, how to be an active and effective ally, and ways to create inclusive, affirming mentoring programs where all young people can thrive.

Watch at: bit.ly/mentorlgbtPL

On June 5, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, we will to call attention to our nation’s preventable gun violence crisis, which takes nearly 47,000 lives every single year.

El 5 de junio, Día Nacional de Concientización sobre la Violencia con Armas de Fuego, usaremos para llamar la atención sobre la crisis de violencia con armas de fuego prevenible en nuestro país, que cobra casi 47,000 vidas cada año.

Wear Orange, invites you to join them as they help make the Providence City Council Chambers fill with orange as we witness a Wear Orange resolution being voted on at the regular Providence City Council Meeting. Our Director of Access, Innovation & Equity, Marisol Feliciano, will be there! We'd love to see you there as well!

Wear orange in honor of National Gun Violence Awareness Day, where we honor those lives taken by gun violence and share our hope for a future that is free from gun violence.

Sign Up at: bit.ly/4dVKcJG

or check the link-in bio!

LGBTQ+ youth need affirming spaces and communities, and a positive relationship is the difference between surviving and thriving for these young people. Mentoring supports this by ensuring that youth have a supportive adult that they can turn to. Want to help?

Check out our resources at: bit.ly/4dozWZF

Wednesday night our Executive Director, Jeanine Achin, was invited and honored to serve as a judge for 2026 Transform RI Scholarship (TRIS). 10 were awarded, many thanks to the POC Foundation for believing in our youth!

Congratulations to all those awarded:
Tristan Boyns
Evan Perez
Snighda Kethineni
Hope Carlson
Abigale King
Gabriela Neves
Mateo Ullaguari,
Leydi Maritza Ramos Sam
Ella Kauffman

The Papitto Opportunity Connection (POC) is a non-profit private foundation dedicated to listening and working together with Rhode Island’s communities in need to empower and create systemic change by investing in education, job skills training, health care, housing and entrepreneurship.

Learn more at https://pocfoundation.com

Today at the Anti-Hate Summit: Building a Future Without Hate, I was surrounded by incredible community partners, leaders, advocates, and changemakers committed to doing the hard work every single day.

These moments remind me that hope is alive when people come together to stand up for the voiceless, advocate for the unrepresented, support the marginalized, remember the forgotten, and invest in the youth of today because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

Grateful to stand beside individuals who lead with compassion, courage, and action, not just words. Together, we continue building stronger, safer, and more inclusive communities for all. ❤️🩷🧡💛💚🩵💙💜