ABSTRACT
Mentoring has a new role to play in helping young people to transform communities and, ultimately, the world. Mentoring, as an age-old practice steeped in tradition, is evolving rapidly and must cease to be the practice adults want it to be and become the practice young people need it to be. Critical mentoring must be at once reciprocal, collaborative, participatory, emancipatory, and transformative. Community programs have the responsibility to engage in mentoring processes that move beyond holding young people accountable to adults and toward holding adults accountable to young people. Schools implementing mentoring programs must consider the responsibility they have to ensure that young people are fully supported and engaged at every level. Higher education institutions also have been working to engage a growing group of marginalized and minoritized youth coming onto their campuses.
