Mission of the Junior Diamonds Program
Rare Diamonds aims to support young self-identified women of color by providing academic and personal guidance through the Junior Diamonds Mentoring Program. Junior Diamonds will foster empowerment and personal growth by building relationships through engaging in workshops and group events with Rare Diamonds men-tors. This program will be a safe space creating intimate connections that will provide Junior Diamonds members with tools of self-expression and awareness that can cultivate change within them-selves and their communities.
Why Junior Diamonds?
We feel that young self-identified women of color, should have a safe space where they can develop a stronger sense of self and feel empowered to become an agent of change in their communities.
The Junior Diamonds program will raise college awareness in your child, by matching her with a woman of color from the Rare Diamonds program (mentor) who will serve as a role model for what the college experience looks like. As a Junior Diamond, you will be matched with a Pomona College Rare Diamonds member who will become your mentor.
The support system that will be cultivated between you and your mentor will also be a space where you can receive the individual attention that promotes your internal self-awareness and growth.
The Junior Diamonds program will raise college awareness in your child, by matching her with a woman of color from the Rare Diamonds program (mentor) who will serve as a role model for what the college experience looks like. As a Junior Diamond, you will be matched with a Pomona College Rare Diamonds member who will become your mentor.
The support system that will be cultivated between you and your mentor will also be a space where you can receive the individual attention that promotes your internal self-awareness and growth.
What the program targets to be a resource for...
Your Rare Diamonds mentor can be a resource for you in many different ways. In the dyads aw well as the workshops, you will have with your mentor, you can potentially explore the following topics you may feel are important to you:
- Experiences as a young woman of Color
- Body Image
- Self-esteem
- Gender as a social construct
- Creative Expression
- Community awareness and engagement
Anticipations for participation
While participating in the program as a Junior Diamond, it is anticipated that you will:
- Be in communication with your “matched” mentor in person, via telephone, skype, aim, social network sites etc. for at least 2 hrs. a month
- Establish roles and expectations with your mentor
- Work to cultivate a mutually respectful relationship with your mentor where confidentiality will be expected and maintained
- Attend mentor/mentee events and workshops
- Orientation Day
- Monthly Saturday Men-tor/Mentee Workshops
Upcoming Events to attend
Welcome Orientation: Meeting your mentee/mentor
When: Sunday, January 23, 2011
Time: 2-4pm
Where: SOCA Lounge (Pomona College)
Social Event/Workshop: America the Beautiful
When: February 19, 2010
Time: 2-4 pm
Where: TBA
Social Event/Workshop:
When: Sunday, January 23, 2011
Time: 2-4pm
Where: SOCA Lounge (Pomona College)
Social Event/Workshop: America the Beautiful
When: February 19, 2010
Time: 2-4 pm
Where: TBA
Social Event/Workshop:
Mentor Training Session
When: TBA
Time: TBA
Where: TBA
Time: TBA
Where: TBA