THE CORPS MENTOR™

A Leadership Journey for your Youth Mental Health Corps

Corps Members are serving with commitment, courage, and heart. Supervisors carry the responsibility of further developing them, retaining them, and supporting their growth-often without enough time or tools. Build their internal capacity, clarity, and resilience to match the impact you’re making every day.

The Corps Mentor™ is a four-to-six-month, bi-weekly leadership and wellbeing journey designed to support your members so you can focus on program quality. It reinforces the competencies you’re already building while providing structured coaching, resilience tools, and personal mastery practices to strengthen your corps experience.

This is not compliance-based training.  It’s a structured coaching experience that helps emerging leaders grow from the inside out.  It is a development model that supports emotional wellbeing, increases engagement and retention, and equips members with the clarity and confidence needed to thrive during and after service.

By the end of the journey, you’ll notice sharpened skills in the areas that matter most: presence, purpose, emotional resilience, communication, collaboration, and their ability to lead with clarity even in high-pressure environments. Each cohort blends teaching, coaching, proclivity and personality-based insights, and real-time application - all in a supportive community of peers walking the same path of service.

Programs across the country use The Corps Mentor™ to support:

  • Member retention
  • Emotional wellbeing and burnout prevention
  • Mission clarity
  • Workforce readiness
  • Cohort cohesion and conflict reduction
  • Skill development aligned to AmeriCorps core competencies

This is how we turn service into personal mastery.
Your members serve the community.
This is how you serve them.

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Actionable solutions and tools for your growth in life and leadership.

 

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Competence and confidence to achieve your goals.

 

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Skills to stay focused and motivated.

 

"We will leave a legacy with everyone and everything we encounter at every encounter."
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Our 5 Keystones

Think For Good and The Corps Mentor connects every training, conversation, technique, and tool to our five key areas (Keystones).

  1. Mettle: Your ability to handle difficult or challenging situations with determination, and resilience.
  2. Moxie: Your practice of courage in the face of fear and adversity. 
  3. Mission: Your reason for existence, sense of meaning, and direction in life. 
  4. Mindset: Your beliefs about yourself, others, and the world.
  5. Mindfulness: Your ability to maintain presence, be aware of your judgments, and make conscious decisions.
 
 
 
 
 
A growing and thriving community

Tray’s strategies helped me get out of my own way and thrive!


-Meghan Griffith

Don’t think twice. Tray and his courses are the real deal.


-Kevin Bennett

Thanks to Tray, I have the confidence to go after my dreams.


-Brigid Lane

Program Benefits 

 Reduce Burnout & Strengthen Wellbeing

  • Members learn grounding practices, emotional regulation tools, and resilience skills aligned with Youth Mental Health Corps protective factors.

Improve Retention & Engagement

  • Bi-weekly touchpoints create structure, community, and accountability — reducing drift, isolation, and overwhelm.

Strengthen Workforce-Ready Leadership Skills

The Corps Mentor™ reinforces competencies employers seek:

  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Adaptability
  • Mission alignment
  • Problem-Solving
  • Conflict navigation

Supports Leadership / Supervisors Without Adding More Work

  • We handle the facilitation, coaching, assignments, and reflection prompts. You simply enroll the cohort.

Member Experience

 Bi-Weekly Learning Rhythm

Each month includes:

  • One 90-minute facilitated leadership session
  • One 60-minute community check-in, reinforcing accountability and wellbeing

Personality and Proclivity-Informed Insight

Members complete researched-based personality assessment before the program begins.
Supervisors receive aggregate insights (no individual private data) to better understand:

  • Communication styles
  • Motivation patterns
  • Conflict triggers
  • Strengths & development areas

A Framework Grounded in Evidence-Based Practice

The journey integrates:

  1. Think For Good 5 Keystones (Mindfulness, Mindset, Mission, Moxie, Mettle)
  2. Cognitive Behavioral Coaching (CBC)
  3. NLP-based identity and mindset tools
  4. Mindfulness and grounding practices
  5. RE-MAP principles and practices
From Tray:

"We live, lead, & experience life not from the outside in, but from the inside out."

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Together, braving the challenges of life and leadership. 

 

 

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...Your Leadership Mentor

 

Tray T.S. Deadwyler is the Founder of Think for Good and The Service Nerd Collective- a leadership, civic engagement, and strategy consultancy supporting individuals and organizations to increase their efficacy through creative ideation, planning, training, and implementation. Also affectionately known as the “Service Nerd” by his colleagues, Tray is an experienced master trainer with over 20 years of leadership and nonprofit development, with the majority of his tenure supporting the national service movement. Tray identifies strategies for enhancing outcomes, connection, retention, and application within every offering. Tray holds credentials in leadership strategy, grantsmanship, volunteer management (CVM), life coaching (CLC), and a specialty in cognitive behavioral coaching (CBC). Tray’s civic and professional transcript spans organizations such as the American Red Cross, Atlanta Police Department, Communities in Schools, Morehouse College, Spelman College, Points of Light Foundation, AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, Angels in Distress, and Love Beyond Walls. As a result of his work and commitment to communities, Tray has been honored with the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) Innovation Award, the Presidential Volunteer Service Award, selected as one of Aspen Institute’s Emerging Nonprofit Leadership Fellows, and Georgia Forward’s Young Game Changers and named one of the most influential leaders of 2020 by B. Magazine.