Mitigating Trauma through Drama: Developing Positive Pathways for Lives Through Expressive Art

The "Brother for Brother" initiative is a movement with various partners within the Foster Care Unplugged advocacy community. This allows various male subgroups and grass roots organizations in the community opportunities to become mentors to youth affected by various forms child welfare interventions. This includes but are not limited to foster care, group homes, non/secure juvenile justice programs. Each group/organization uses tactic measures to expose these youth to safety planning, leadership, healthy decision making, as well as understanding the basic scale of masculinity within various stages of manhood.

A Brother's duty

Bearded Dapper Gents & Foster Care Unplugged partnered up to put youth through a body image and set esteem Transformative journey. Each youth was paired with a male figure from the group, and shared ideas on manhood. Throughout the process mentors and members were sent to Dreu Beckemberg Tailor suit company for for costume suits. Upon the end of project youth mentors along with Founder Melody Centeno were provided with a photo shoot to ensure they never forget their journey.