Youth Partners Program
The most powerful advice come not from your elders, but your peers!
Our Youth Partners Program is focused on providing Opportunity Youth with a point of reference from their peers. These programs are intended to create a mentor/mentee relationship with youth while also continuing to reinforce the principles laid out in our Core Modules. Our Team Leaders are constantly developing new techniques to impart best practices while also making a meaningful connection with our youth.
Meet our Youth Partners
Camila Haynes, Coordinator
Camila Haynes is a psychiatrist in training in the Washington DC area. Her interest in working with adolescents is rooted in the importance of developing healthy habits, life skills and mental health awareness during these formative years. She hopes to make an impact by being part of a team that provides the tools, support and guidance necessary to help set the foundation for the promising futures of our youth.
Joseph Talbet
Joe Talbet is a medical student at Howard University. He is also a native New Yorker. When he is not studying or working at the Hospital, you will find him flying or painting. He is excited to be working with our opportunity youth to make an impact in his community.
Kirsten Forrester
15, Green Level High School
I want to be a part of ENT Youth Partners because I want to help people get through difficult situations. I value creating connections with other people that we both can benefit from. Becoming a member of ENT Youth Partners is a way that I can form relationships with people while also helping them.
Bethle Ayele
16, Benjamin Banneker Academic High School
Making meaningful relationships with people of all ages has always been something I take pride in. ENTYS’s values align with that , so creating mentor/mentee relationships with youth is a way I can use a passion of mine to help others.
13, Suitland High School
Hello, I want to be in ENTYS to help people my age from mental illness. I also want to be in ENT because I’ve had people near me that have dealt with mental health issues and I don’t want anyone else to feel that way.
Jailyn Sharpe
Dakota Watts
Makayla Sharpe
16, Suitland High School
I want to be a part of this youth group because I want to help others. I know what it’s like to be in a bad place and to feel low, so I want to do my best to make sure that others don’t feel that way. I know that the youth group will help teens in need.
Hillary De La Cruz
16, Charles Herbert Flowers High School, Science and Tech Program
I have the opportunity to reach out to young minds through ENT Youth. Our youth, I believe, play an important role in society's success, and we are the shapers of our future. -Hillary De La Cruz
Emily De La Cruz
15,Ccollege Park Academy
I wanted to be apart of ENTYS because it was a great chance to be communicating with kids my age about problems in our communities. This was also an opportunity to be able to help kids with mental health.
