Gov. Gavin Newsom launches California Men's Service challenge aimed to help young boys and men

SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- In beforehand of a backdrop of young men and supporters successful Sacramento County connected Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom launched the California Men's Service Challenge successful hopes of inspiring the adjacent procreation of service, enactment and assemblage engagement among boys and young men.

The strategy down the inaugural is to enactment done partnerships already formed with section and authorities non-profits.

The California Men's Service Challenge was archetypal conceived astir a twelvemonth agone erstwhile Gov. Newsom was fixed a nationalist canvass showing 70 percent of boys and young men believed that nine does not attraction astir their well-being.

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The situation is present calling connected 10,000 men to pb arsenic mentors, coaches, and tutors to this circumstantial group.

The authorities is gathering upon existing partnerships with leaders already carrying retired this benignant of work, including Big Brothers Big Sisters, Mentor California, and the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles.

"We person an epidemic of loneliness and truthful overmuch of that is manifesting and metastasizing online successful precise profound and consequential ways and past week lone underscored that further. And truthful this is simply a timely initiative," Gov. Newsom said.

The initiative's strategy aims astatine combining work with mentorship and accomplishment development, engaging and gathering young men straight arsenic these nonprofits and their teams physique connections done education, assemblage and vocation opportunities.

Tuesday's motorboat is simply a stepping chromatic to expanding the Governor's efforts to beforehand pathways for the occurrence of California's youth.

Some of those vocation opportunities already being touted see catastrophe relief, wildfire mitigation and adjacent coaching assemblage sports.

The Governor's extremity is to trim the unemployment complaint among the state's young men and make much opportunities for men successful schools and places of leadership.