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Dr. Emmanuel Bile was our esteemed guest last week informing the club of the "Choice Mentoring Initiative" - Helping Young Youths in Our Community Dr. Emmanuel Bile is an adjunct professor of social work at Elms College, Chicopee, Massachusetts. Dr. Bile also serves as a medical social worker/clinical consultant at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, New York, and works with the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services (DDS), Berkshire Area Office in Pittsfield. Dr. Bile has experience in leadership roles at various Human Service Organizations in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Dr. Bile Co-founded the Choices Mentoring Initiative program to help decrease risk aspects and unearth resiliency to promote the emotional welfare of African American youths ages 10 to 17. Dr. Bile’s primary interest is fostering learning and collaborating with teams and community partners to provide dignified services and equal opportunity for all the individual protected categories, including age, different abilities, gender identity and sexual orientation, military personnel, national origin or ancestry, race color, or religion. Dr. Bile is a learning facilitator with excellent organizational and leadership skills, proficient in collaborating with others, a team builder, a fast learner, and committed to enhancing the well-being and dignity of all people. Dr. Bile earned an Associates of Human Services at Berkshire Community College, a Bachelor of Social Work from Elms College, a Master of Social Work from Springfield College, and a Doctor of Social Work from the School of Public Leadership at Capella University. Dr. Bile completed the Commonwealth of Massachusetts CORE Management Program in 2018 and Berkshire Leadership Program in 2017. Choice Mentoring InitiativeDr. Bile along with Deborah Salmon and Jerome Edgerton came together to discuss the importance of such an organization. Choices Mentoring Initiative seeks to decrease risk aspects and enhance resilience to overall participants' welfare and achievement. Vision:Choices Mentoring Initiative seeks to decrease risk aspects and enhance resilience to overall participants' welfare and achievement. Mission: The mission of the Choices Mentoring Initiative is to build relationships that connect youth to themselves, their family, and the community with learned skills that increase the feeling of value and inclusion, mutual respect, and self-identity. They work with youth to develop an understanding of themselves through the traversal of knowledge and skills to nurture their self-situation and identity. Short-Term and Long-Term Goals: The Choices Mentoring Initiative tackles the following variables: Communication and conflict resolution skills. |