Solid, consistent, and individualized support for young people in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Who we help:
Teens and young adults who are going through transition from treatment to home or from home to independence.
Youth who are struggling with home life, school, or friends.
Families with young people who could benefit from more structure, activity or a healthier routine.
Young people who need help making decisions about their future.
An Individualized Approach:
Every person is different and has different needs and abilities. East Gate Mentoring works with families and existing professionals to design and implement a support plan that is tailored to each individual.
These plans vary depending on what each young person might need and mentoring services can range anywhere from 1 hour per month to 10 hours per week.
What Sessions Entail:
One-on-one Mentoring
It is the goal of East Gate Mentoring to support clients through the challenges of life by introducing the positive relationship of a mentor: someone who can listen and relate to them while challenging their self-defeating beliefs. A young person often doesn’t know how to handle the difficult transition into adulthood. As a result, they can take it out on themselves, loved ones or family. Many feel like they are alone and that no one understands them. Building rapport through a mentoring relationship invites openness to new ideas and perspectives.
Real Life Experience
Many young people are not fully prepared for the “real world”. East Gate Mentoring can help today’s youth and young adults find meaningful and productive ways to invest their time and gain experience for the future. Finding employment, volunteering opportunities, continuing education, and sober activities are some of the ways East Gate Mentoring can help your youth or young adult find safe and fun ways to engage with their community.
Health and Wellbeing
East Gate Mentoring focuses on helping clients find healthier ways to cope with life. With countless distractions and ways to escape hardship, young people often find themselves aligning with apathetic or destructive cycles of behavior. There are often great benefits to be had in making changes to diet, exercise regimen, and general self-care. A wider span of interests or hobbies can also help broaden horizons. East Gate Mentors share their experiences and can help clients find new, healthy passions to explore and enjoy.
What People Are Saying
“I’ve had several mentors over the years, and started from a place where I wasn’t going out and wasn’t even getting dressed. Then Yoshi came in and bounced me out of the house, and had me doing things I never expected to. She found ways to make slow and steady steps towards a goal, so that it wasn’t too daunting, and every week make progress. I would say she has been more helpful than any mentor I’ve ever had. Now I go out and pursue things by myself.”
-Client
“Yoshi works to get to know the person first, whatever their quirks are, and makes them feel comfortable. It really helps to trust who you are working with, and also motivates you to want to do well for yourself.”
-Client
“For families with neurodivergent individuals, it is really hard to find someone who has the humility, energy and bandwidth to learn about the breadth of someone’s individual challenges and still work with them in a way to get them to their goals. I didn’t believe it would be possible to find someone like that.”