At August’s training event students developed the skills necessary to be effective in their roles as mentors—skills that will also be applicable to their own personal and professional success—while learning about support resources for mentees. Students discussed best practices for mentoring other students and managing their own workloads while exploring the importance of their personal and cultural identities, and the impact on effective peer mentoring on academic and professional success.

The Hispanic Federation, which runs CREAR Futuros is a nonprofit organization with offices in New York, Washington D.C., Connecticut, and Florida, and a footprint throughout the East Coast and a presence in total of 20 states. Its mission is to empower and embrace the Latino community. The CREAR Futuros program is aimed at creating a community of care to ensure student success and the Hispanic Federation advocates to shape the Latino agenda. The program has expanded college success for Latinos by helping nearly 1,000 college students in nine universities across four states to succeed academically.