The My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Sacramento Collaborative is committed to improving the educational, health, social and economic outcomes for local boys and men of color.
The initiative began in response to President Obama’s signing the My Brother’s Keeper Memorandum in February 2014, calling for national attention focused on addressing persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color.
MBK Sacramento is bringing systems leaders, advocates, community partners, youth-serving organizations and young people together to address health, education, employment and justice system disparities for young men of color through policy advocacy, systems change and support for effective programs.
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The MBK Sacramento Collaborative is funded by Sierra Health Foundation and is managed by The Center.
Latest News
Register for Cohort 6 of MBK Youth Fellowship
We’re recruiting for Cohort 6 of the MBK Sacramento Youth Fellowship! This 12-week program empowers young men of color ages 16 to 24 throughout Sacramento to develop as leaders and professionals, build brotherhood, and facilitate community engagement. Registration for the Youth Fellowship is open now and closes September 19, 2024.
18 Youth Fellows graduate from Cohort 5 of MBK Youth Fellowship
Congratulations to the 18 Youth Fellows who graduated from Cohort 5 of the MBK Youth Fellowship! This 12-week program focuses on building brotherhood, leadership, workforce development skills and civic engagement advocacy efforts to improve life outcomes for boys and young men of color throughout Sacramento. Read this article by The Sacramento Observer on the Youth Fellowship graduation, and meet the Fellows of Cohort 5 here.
MBK Mental Health is Wealth Summit
MBK Sacramento hosted its first ever Mental Health is Wealth Summit in April 2024. The two-day summit brought together youth-serving organizations and mental health practitioners to share strategies for reducing mental health stigma and building capacity for effective engagement within communities of color. “We identified different policies and practices in order to promote wellness for not just our communities but for all young men of color,” said Ray Green, The Center’s MBK Program Officer.
MBK Sacramento Recognized as MBK Certified City
In September 2023, My Brother’s Keeper Sacramento was recognized as a My Brother’s Keeper certified city by the Obama Foundation/MBK Alliance. This certification recognizes the community’s commitment to population-level change for boys and young men of color in one or more of the six My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) milestones. Certification is achieved by building a collective impact infrastructure aligned with the MBK Equity Framework, documenting those efforts in the MBK online platform and receiving formal approval from MBK Alliance. Each certified community maintains their certification by participating in continuous improvement of population-level change as a part of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Leadership Network.
MBK Sacramento Mastermind Podcast launches!
The MBK Sacramento Youth Fellowship Creative Academy, led by 4YourEpiphany and MBK Sacramento Youth Fellows, launched the All-Access Podcast series titled “Mastermind.” Young men of color created, wrote and produced this series to inform, inspire and encourage other young men in Sacramento and beyond to engage in opportunities through the My Brother’s Keeper Sacramento Network. Access the Mastermind Podcast series on Buzzsprout.com.
MBK Sacramento Youth Fellows launch mental health navigation webpage
As part of their Youth Fellowship program, Cohort 4 Youth Fellows launched the MBK Sacramento Brother Be Well webpage to remove barriers to accessing mental health support, increase the cultural responsiveness of mental health services for youth of color and increase their ability to navigate health systems to get care. The project was in partnership with Kaiser Permanente and Mental Health California’s Brother Be Well program.
Join the MBK Sacramento Collaborative!
This updated MBK Sacramento overview packet (.pdf) is designed for community members and leaders who are interested in joining the Collaborative.
1300 Campaign launches
The 1300 Campaign is an initiative led by Improve Your Tomorrow and My Brother’s Keeper Sacramento and funded by The Center at Sierra Health Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. This regional policy campaign is working to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, with the goal of sending an additional 1,300 young men of color to Sacramento State and UC Davis by 2025. Learn more on the 1300 Campaign website.
Mastermind Podcast Series
The MBK Sacramento Youth Fellowship Creative Academy, led by 4YourEpiphany and MBK Sacramento Youth Fellows, presents the Mastermind podcast series to inform, inspire and encourage other young men in Sacramento and beyond to engage in opportunities through the My Brother’s Keeper Sacramento Network.
Podcast topics include Growth Mindset, Entrepreneurship, Mindfulness, Mental Health, and Public Safety and Juvenile Justice.
Learn more about MBK Sacramento
The Collaborative
Aligned with a collective impact model, the MBK Sacramento Collaborative is designed to support effective and coordinated action across multiple organizations through six elements of engagement.
Obama Foundation
The Center at Sierra Health Foundation was selected as one of 10 recipients of an Obama Foundation MBK Community Challenge Impact grant to improve life outcomes for boys and young men of color.
Youth Fellowship
The Youth Fellowship establishes a brotherhood among young men of color ages 16 to 20 from across Sacramento who have an interest to engage in advocacy on behalf of other young men of color.
Publications
Visit the MBK Sacramento publications library for in-depth information and reports about the collaborative, resources and Youth Fellowship policy briefs.
Mentoring Program
MBK Sacramento is building on the strength of a community that is united around a common and critical goal: healthy development and successful futures for Sacramento’s young men of color.
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