TRUE Mentors, Inc.
“Our organization intends to continue finding ways to teach our youth about community history and devise more projects for our youth to engage with their communities and the history that surrounds them.”
TRUE Mentors, Inc. is a volunteer-based community organization that provides mentoring programs to at-risk youth residing within Hudson County. The goal of the organization’s Community History project was to make their youth feel represented in their communities while also learning about the history of the people who have impacted their communities before them. TRUE Mentors accomplished this by holding expert-led workshops on ways to reflect personal, familial, and cultural connections through art, such as portraiture, iconography, and mapping. Youth then created their own works of art based on these cultural and historical methods that were presented in a culminating event at Ben & Jerry’s in Hoboken in November 2022.
