Triple Threat Mentoring
Triple Threat Mentoring has been delivering youth advocacy, case management, and empowerment services through our mentorship program for the past 5 years. Our mission is to increase opportunities for all youth to prosper through mentorship, motivation, and guidance, helping them transition into young adults with purpose. We do this by:
Equipping our children to become the leaders of a better tomorrow by providing them with the tools and resources to be empowered, positive, and productive members of society.
Encouraging personal growth by providing support and cultivating opportunities for exposure to higher education, careers, and vocational training through partnerships and collaborations with other community organizations, including not-for-profit organizations.
Administering knowledge and assist them with life and decision-making skills to help them make positive choices.
Currently we provide intensive mentorship to 95 high school and middle school black and brown youth that are in 28 schools throughout Multnomah County. Our intensive mentorship program provides each mentee with 1 hour a week of one-on-one mentoring and 3 to 4 hours a week of group mentoring and activities. Under this program our mentors provide case management, tracking the mentees progress toward their SMART goals, changes in their risk and protective factors, grades, attendance, behavioral infractions, etc. Through weekly case management meetings with Program Directors, mentors collaborate on interventions and resources to assist our mentees. We have a holistic approach to programming, understanding that in order for youth to succeed as they move into adulthood all aspects of their person need attending to. Too often, especially for Black and Brown students, their culture and identity and their view of their future is wrapped up in dominant societies narratives. In every aspect of our programming we challenge these narratives, breaking them down with the mentee, giving the mentee a safe space and time to discover their own identity, what they want their future to be, and skills to help reach their goals. In addition to mentorship, our program participants are exposed to STEAM activities, tutoring, career and college exploration, health and wellness activities, community give back projects, and the development of life skills. We also provide work-based learning opportunities for our high school youth as Jr. Coaches during our Summer Lit and Sports Camp for kids in K-5th grade.
We work to bridge the gaps—between school and home, between potential and opportunity, between what our Black youth deserve and what systems too often deliver. We’ve always believed that no one group can do this work alone, and we’ve long hoped for a space where trusted organizations could come together not in competition, but in collaboration. The Education Co-Op represents that hope in action. Our participation gives us the chance to align our grassroots experience with a broader collective strategy that’s laser-focused on outcomes we’ve been chasing for years—reading proficiency by 3rd grade, confidence in math by middle school, increased graduation rates, digital fluency, and meaningful career exposure. By joining the Co-Op means we don’t have to carry it alone. It also meets some very real needs we’ve carried quietly for too long:
The need for shared data systems that make it easier to track a student’s journey across programs and schools.
The need for dedicated time to step back and plan, not just respond.
The need for equitable investment, we are small but mighty. Organizations like ours are often overlooked simply because we don’t have a development team or a large building.
We see this partnership as a chance to dream together, design together, and deliver on the promises our systems haven’t always kept. A planning grant would allow us to do something rare in this line of work: build while we serve. Too often, we’re expected to dream big while running on empty—to grow our impact without the time, space, or support to think strategically about what growth really looks like.
Contact Information
Nike Greene, CEO & Founder
nikegreene@gmail.com
