Ep. 8 - Yvonne Green on Creating a High School Mentoring Program for College Access

Yvonne Green works in the Broward County Schools and shares her work with the BRACE Cadets, a group of students who are selected, receive training, and then create projects to share information about going to college and paying for it. We talk abut the primary and secondary gains these mentors get from the program, and the impact of the program in the Broward Schools. We also talk about funding this program, ideas on how other high schools might create their own mentoring toward college programs, and how colleges might partner with high schools to help create a college-going culture.

Yvonne Green

Yvonne Green's superpower is taking complex ideas and turning them into impactful programs for K-12 students. Helping children succeed in school is her great calling in life.

She currently works with Broward County Public Schools, where she piloted and managed BRACE Cadets, a successful college and career readiness peer mentoring program.

In October, she will release the BRACE Cadets mini-documentary, We Are YOU! Going To College Debt-free$$! This features the stories of three first-gen, college-bound BRACE Cadets who applied what we taught them about scholarships and are headed to college debt-free.

Yvonne's career has always revolved around children and education. For the past 15 years, she has focused on increasing post-secondary access and success for all students, but with an emphasis on students who are the first in their families to go to college.

Yvonne has consulted nationally and internationally on developing strategic partnerships, and has presented at national and regional conferences on peer mentoring, community schools, and strategies to increase post-secondary access and success.

She holds a Master's in Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work.

Family, faith, and good food are important to Yvonne. She recently returned to her roots and started cooking Jamaican food and is getting very good at it!

You can reach her at yvonne.green@browardschools.edu and you can find her on LinkedIn @ChangeAgent12.

Please help others find this podcast by rating and reviewing wherever you listen!