Kenwood Brotherhood, Inc. – Chicago, IL
Shelby T. Wyatt, Ed. D
Nadia Y. Jenkins
Brittany Sims
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Part 2 from the presentation in 2013
The Brotherhood is a school based male
mentoring organization that was created as a
supplement to promote student achievement
in elementary and high school.
The scope has grown to include mentoring
for young adults
NOUN:
An association of men, such as a fraternity or
union, united for common purposes
VERB:
Action associated with maintaining the
Brotherhood bond
ADJECTIVE:
Genuine Concern
1. Kenwood Academy Brotherhood History
2. Mental Health Checkups
3. Intimacy Research
4. Cultural Comprehension
5. Expanding the Scope
6. Why Young Adults
7. Issues Affecting Young Adult Males
8. Kenwood Brotherhood, Inc.
9. Community and University Partnerships
10. Fun Evaluative Tools
Created to address:
1.Low graduation rate of
African American males in
the Chicago Public School
System
2. Low participation of
males in non-athletic
leadership roles at Kenwood
Academy
3. Lack of knowledge of
positive opportunities
outside of the classroom
Counseling and Psychology Graduate School Students Provide
Weekly:
• Professional Adult mentoring
• Assigned Mentees
• Grade Checks
• Assessments of home issues
• Provide Coping Strategies
• Conflict Resolution
• Stress release activities
• Weekly Lesson Planning
• Leadership Skill development
• Enrichment Opportunities
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Who
What
When
Where
Why
How
Formula: Safety + Trust + Vulnerability =
INTIMACY
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Fraternity=Safety
Responsibility=Trust
Creativity=Vulnerability
‘We are the Brotherhood. A male-mentoring
organization with the creed ‘Fraternity’,
‘Responsibility’ and ‘Creativity’. We are
our brothers keeper in this group’. S. Rogers ‘14
‘It was the Brotherhood that showed me
what bonding meant. Intimacy is what I
was missing at home’
Corzail Nicholson ‘08
Cultural Comprehension – Culture is
defined as the entity that makes you
unique.
Comprehension- Your ability to
understand
The purpose of cultural comprehension is
to assist students to understand their
uniqueness. This requires a series of
assessments (informal/formal) to collect
personal data on self-perception, selfesteem, and self-concept.
Data collected from these assessments
can be used to introduce counseling
lessons or secure enrichment
opportunities that can provide cultural
clarification
Three Phases of Cultural
Comprehension
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The perceived reality of
how others view you
Analysis of your own
behavior and make
judgments about why
you do what you do
A collection of beliefs
about oneself
How we see ourselves
Who am I?
Cognitive and
Descriptive
Interacts with selfperception and selfesteem
A judgment and
attitude of
oneself
 Negative or
positive
evaluation of
oneself
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Scope expands from
Kenwood Academy to include
the Brotherhood alumni
1.True Brotherhood
Mentoring
2.Validation
3.Information
4.Resources
5.Clarification
6.Cyclical Effect
1. College Admission
& Retention
2. Unsure Long and
Short Term Goals
3. Employable Skills
Unemployment
4. Mental Health
5. Death Statistics
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Began as the Alumni
Foundation in 2007
2011-Began
researching not for
profit status
Established in
February, 2012
Purpose to support
high school guys
Platform for skill
development for
Brotherhood alumni
and friends
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Social Media
Mentoring through
DePaul University
Journaling
Skits
Open Forum
Poetry
Positive Rap
Graphic Design
Activities
Projects
Field Trips
Kenwood Academy
Brotherhood
5015 South Blackstone
Chicago, Il 60615
stwyatt@cps.edu
773-535-1372
www.kenwoodbrotherhood.com
Kenwood Brotherhood,
Inc.
9412 South Calumet
Chicago, IL 60619
Kenwood.brotherhood.inc@gmail.
com
773-550-0485
Facebook:
Kenwood Academy
Brotherhood/Kenwood
Brotherhood Inc.