Critical Mentoring
Chapter 2: Resources for Doing This Work

Resources for Doing This Work
If mentoring programs are going to adopt critical mentoring approaches, those developing and running the services will need tools that can help them do that work well. Below we offer some core resources that were developed for this project, as well as additional readings and resources that can support the development of effective critical mentoring programs.
Main Critical Mentoring Tools of this Supplement
These materials offer a great starting point for programs looking to either build a new critical mentoring program or shift an existing program to a more critical approach.
Connecting Critical Mentoring and the Elements of Effective Practice for MentoringTM
This downloadable PDF offers guidance on how to apply a critical mentoring approach within the core practice areas of MENTOR’s Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring. Core practice recommendations and key questions practitioners must answer are included.
A streamlined checklist version of the practices recommended in the document above.
This guide, built around key questions from the Critical Mentoring book by Dr. Weiston-Serdan, offers practitioners another lens through which to plan for transitions to critical mentoring.
Additional Tools & Resources
Here we present a hand-selected collection of tools, multimedia resources, and readings that can further educate and illuminate your critical mentoring path.
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Readings Diversity
- Diversity Toolkit: A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power, and Privilege by The MSW@USC (November 5, 2020)
Intersectionality
- Ten Tips for Putting Intersectionality into Practice by The Opportunity Agenda (2017)
- The Case for Intersectionality: Supporting LGBTQ Youth Amidst COVID-19 by Ryan Sasse, UNICEF (June 25, 2020)
Self-Care and Joy
- Black Stories Matter: Reframing Mental Health in Black Communities
- Reframing Activism & Self-Care with Dean Spade
- The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma-Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement by Shawn Ginwright
- Healing, Resilience, and Thriving by Families Thrive
- Self-Care A-Z – The Politics of Self-Care: Toward Radical Decolonization
Liberation Language
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Videos Intersectionality
- Kimberlé Crenshaw: What is Intersectionality? by National Association of Independent Schools (June 22, 2018)
Self-Care and Joy
- Black Girls Self-Care
- Twerk on Washington
- Healing Justice & the Possibilities of Liberation by @DiverseTerps
- BODIES AS RESISTANCE: Claiming the Political Act of Being Oneself by Sonya Renee Taylor
Critical Mentoring
Youth Centrism
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Book List Self-Care and Joy
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
- Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah



