{"id":11380,"date":"2009-11-03T15:44:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T23:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2009-11-03T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T23:43:30","slug":"larosiliere-tells-the-stoked-mentoring-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11380","title":{"rendered":"Larosiliere Tells The Stoked Mentoring Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/stoked_mentoring.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/stoked_mentoring.jpg','popup','width=134,height=70,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/stoked_mentoring-tm.jpg\" height=\"52\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Stoked Mentoring\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoked.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked Mentoring&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> Founder and Executive Director <strong>Steve Larosilliere<\/strong> tells the story of his organization on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steve-larosiliere\/the-new-new-new-thing-how_b_343857.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 5 years, we&#8217;ve worked with hundreds of youth in New York and L.A. and taught them valuable life skills in the process. Life skills such as goal-setting, networking, trust, patience, and how to overcome obstacles. What we discovered along the way was the need for at-risk youth to have positive role models and quality life experiences that add value and dimension to their lives. They need to develop their own &#8220;Story&#8221;. One that isn&#8217;t the same as the people in their community. One that is uniquely theirs. Instead of being an inner city high school dropout, they can be a snowboarder from the inner city who wants to work in advertising, has a mentor, and is a high school graduate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To get involved with Stoked mentoring, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoked.org\/wordpress\/get-stoked\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steve-larosiliere\/the-new-new-new-thing-how_b_343857.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoked Mentoring&#8217;s Founder and Executive Director Steve Larosilliere tells the story of his organization on the Huffington Post. In 5 years, we&#8217;ve worked with hundreds of youth in New York and L.A. and taught them valuable life skills in the process. Life skills such as goal-setting, networking, trust, patience, and how to overcome obstacles. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11381,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}