Released October 24 & December 9, 2022
“Your role in my life as someone I know who also has a parent who has been incarcerated gave me encouragement, gave me an example to know I could do it.” — Armonté Butler, podcast episode host
Credible messengers are mentors whose lived experiences serve as a credential in their work to provide guidance, support, and encouragement to young people facing similar challenges. Credible messengers are unique mentors in that their lived experience serves to create even deeper trust, understanding, and partnership with the young people they serve. This podcast looks at how well-trained, resourced, supported, and paid credible messengers can serve young people navigating the youth legal system, child welfare system, K-12 schools, or college.
The Credible Messengers Podcast unpacks the term “credible messenger,” to show you what a credible messenger is and isn’t. And through lived examples and exemplary research, we illustrate the many ways where credible messengers are already working or should be utilized to improve outcomes for young people, especially those marginalized by systemic inequities.
“If you want to solve a problem, you have to talk to the people who are enduring [or have endured] the impact of that problem.” — Iliana Pujols, podcast episode host
Episodes:
Episode 1: Introduction to Credible Messengers
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Iliana Pujols, Host
Youth Policy Consultant, AYPF
Clinton Lacey, Guest
President and CEO, Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement (CM3)
Episode 2: Credible Messengers in Child Welfare
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Daftne Sanchez, Host
Youth Policy Consultant, AYPF
Serita Cox, Guest
Co-Founder & CEO, iFoster
Tyree Crawford, Guest
iFoster TAY Americorps Ambassador
Episode 3: Credible Messengers in Colleges and Universities
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Armonté Butler, Host
Youth Policy Consultant, AYPF
Yasmine Arrington, Guest
Founder & Executive Director, ScholarCHIPS (For Children of Incarcerated Parents)
Micere Keels, Guest
Associate Professor, The University of Chicago
Episode 4: Credible Messengers in K-12 Schools
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Brittany LaMarr, Host
Youth Policy Consultant, AYPF
Dr. Bernadette Sánchez, Guest
Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago
Leighton Johnson, Guest
Ice the Beef
Kenvin Lacayo, Guest
Middle School Dean of Students & Youth Policy Consultant, AYPF
Episode 5: Credible Messengers in the Youth Legal System
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Abdul Ali, Host
Youth Policy Consultant, AYPF
Erica King, Guest
Senior Manager, Center For Effective Public Policy
Hernán Carvente-Martinez, Guest
Founder, Healing Ninjas, Inc.
Episode 6: Panel Discussion with Our Credible Messenger Podcast Hosts
Transcript Coming Soon
Kameryn Point, Host
AYPF Policy & Programs Associate
Abdul Ali, Guest/Host
Youth Policy Consultant, AYPF
Brittany LaMarr, Guest/Host
Youth Policy Consultant, AYPF
Iliana Pujols, Guest/Host
Youth Policy Consultant, AYPF
Daftne Sanchez, Guest/Host
Youth Policy Consultant, AYPF
Related Research:
- Barnert, E. S., Dudovitz, R., Nelson, B. B., Coker, T. R., Biely, C., Li, N., & Chung, P. J. (2017). How Does Incarcerating Young People Affect Their Adult Health Outcomes?. Pediatrics, 139(2), e20162624. 10.1542/peds.2016-2624
- Cauffman E, Beardslee J, Fine A, Frick PJ, Steinberg L (2020). Crossroads in juvenile justice: The impact of initial processing decision on youth 5 years after first arrest. Development and Psychopathology 1–14. 10.1017/ S095457942000200X
- De Los Reyes, Wendy & Sánchez, Bernadette & Polo, Antonio & Quiroz, Alma & Thursby, Kay & O’Donnell, Alexander & Monjaras-Gaytan, Lidia. (2022). Mentoring Latinx Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review. Adolescent Research Review. 7. 1-21. 10.1007/s40894-021-00156-3.
- Keels, M. (2020). Campus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students’ Search for Community at Historically White Universities. Cornell University Press.
- Griffith, Aisha & Hurd, Noelle & Hussain, Saida. (2017). “I Didn’t Come to School for This”: A Qualitative Examination of Experiences With Race-Related Stressors and Coping Responses Among Black Students Attending a Predominantly White Institution. Journal of Adolescent Research. 34. 074355841774298. 10.1177/0743558417742983.
- Lynch, Matthew, Nan Marie Astone, Juan Collazos, Micaela Lipman & Sino Esthappan (2018). Arches Transformative Mentoring Program: An Implementation and Impact Evaluation in New York City. Urban Institute
- Ozer, Emily & Douglas, Laura. (2015). Assessing the Key Processes of Youth-Led Participatory Research. Youth & Society. 47. 29-50. 10.1177/0044118X12468011.
- Sánchez, Bernadette. (2016). Mentoring for Black Male Youth: National Mentoring Resource Center Population Review. National Mentoring Research Center.
- Van Dam, L et al. (2018). Does Natural Mentoring Matter? A Multilevel Meta-analysis on the Association Between Natural Mentoring and Youth Outcomes. American Journal of Community Psychology vol. 62,1-2: 203-220. 10.1002/ajcp.12248
- Walton, G. M., & Wilson, T. D. (2018). Wise interventions: Psychological remedies for social and personal problems. Psychological Review. 125(5), 617–655.
Related Events:
- “Capitol Hill Forum: Credible Messengers as a Youth Policy Solution”
October 26, 2022 - “Credible Messengers Small Group Discussion”
January 27, 2022
Support for this podcast was provided by the AIR Equity Initiative.