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Newsom Launches California Men's Service Challenge Seeking 10,000 Mentors

California is recruiting 10,000 male mentors through its service corps to counter rising isolation and suicide risk in boys and young men.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled the California Men’s Service Challenge Tuesday, a new program that calls on 10,000 men to volunteer as mentors, coaches, and tutors.
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Overview

  • California Volunteers and the California Service Corps will lead recruitment of 10,000 men to mentor, coach and tutor boys statewide.
  • Partner organizations include Improve Your Tomorrow, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Mentor California, the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, the Giants Community Fund and the American Institute for Boys and Men.
  • Officials say mentors will receive training developed with behavioral-health experts and state agencies such as the Department of Public Health.
  • Newsom tied the effort to a July executive order on boys' mental health and said Charlie Kirk's killing underscored the urgency of combating disconnection.
  • Research cited by the state notes roughly one in four young men report frequent loneliness and males 15–44 die by suicide at three to four times the rate of females; no dedicated new funding has been announced.