{"id":55271,"date":"2024-02-23T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/?p=52982"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:24:51","slug":"serving-young-black-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/2024\/02\/serving-young-black-men\/","title":{"rendered":"[WATCH] #BehindTheData: Serving More Young Black Men, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;Summer Search is strongly committed to serving more young Black men.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sherri-Brooks-staff\" src=\"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Sherri_Brooks_staff_2024.png\" alt=\"Sherri Brooks\" width=\"250\" data-id=\"48260\" data-init-width=\"1000\" data-init-height=\"1000\" data-width=\"250\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sherri Brooks, Summer Search&#8217;s Director of Learning, Evaluation, &amp; Engagement.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Sherri&#8217;s back with our second installment of #BehindTheData!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Last week, she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/2024\/02\/15\/behindthedata-summersearchers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">discussed some of the demographics<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"> of the Summer Search participants we currently serve. This week, Sherri dives into a group that we are striving to serve more of, <strong>young Black men<\/strong> (<em>male-identifying participants<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#BehindTheData - Serving More Young Black Men - Part 1\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/915789842?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Recruiting and Serving More Young Black Men<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Summer Searchers are doing well overall, <strong>however there are segments of our population that we\u2019re not reaching at the same level<\/strong> \u2013 one of them being young Black men.<\/p>\n<p>While we serve <strong>96% students of color<\/strong>, with 25% of all students identifying as Black\/African American, <strong>we serve a lower number of young Black men than we\u2019d like to<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>When analyzing our recruitment and enrollment data <strong>over the past four years<\/strong>, we noticed that t<span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">he percentage of young Black men entering (enrolling in) Summer Search has been <strong>under the mean percentage of other young men<\/strong> that were not Black\/African American entering our program.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0Specifically:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-leveltext=\"-\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-listid=\"3\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Between 2018-2019: <strong>enrollment of young Black men was 6.4% higher<\/strong> than men of other races entering our program.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-leveltext=\"-\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-listid=\"3\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Between 2020-2023: <strong>enrollment of young Black men is 4.4% lower<\/strong> than men of other races entering our program.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 lang=\"EN-US\"><em><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">We Can Do Better! Here Are Actions We&#8217;re Taking.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Our communities and teams have implemented strategies with clear goals to recruit and retain young Black men in Summer Search. <strong>On the recruitment side, that includes:<\/strong><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-leveltext=\"-\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-listid=\"1\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Seeking new referral partnerships (high schools, community organizations, and more).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-leveltext=\"-\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-listid=\"1\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Prioritizing young Black men in the application and acceptance processes<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-leveltext=\"-\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-listid=\"1\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Engaging current Summer Search students and alumni as recruitment ambassadors<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Summer Search is strongly committed to serving more young Black men. <\/strong>And recruitment is just one phase of this commitment.<\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">Tune in next week when<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Sherri will take a closer look at our <em><strong>engagement and<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>retention efforts<\/strong><\/em> to better support young Black men once they are already enrolled in our program.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<strong>#BehindTheData<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Summer Search is strongly committed to serving more young Black men.&#8221; Sherri&#8217;s back with our second installment of #BehindTheData! Last week, she discussed some of the&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":58494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data","category-mentoring","category-staff"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/summersearch-blog-behindthedata_blackmen-63-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/summersearch-blog-behindthedata_blackmen-63-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brendan Hill","author_link":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/author\/brendanhill\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}