ABOUT US

Established in April 2020 Triple Threat Mentoring is a program that offers one-on-one and group mentoring to primarily Black and Brown girls living in North or Northeast Portland. Our program focuses on three areas: Attitude, Academics and Athletics. We offer leadership development, basketball instruction, life skills instruction, community responsibility, and parent advocacy and training to Middle School-12th grade participants. We are dedicated to the academic success and lifelong health of Portland’s underserved girls of color, supporting them in becoming well-rounded learners, exceptional athletes, and global citizens.  We focus our participants on having a global vision while acting locally.
 

In the 2017 report, Georgetown Law researchers found that black girls as young as 5 years old are already seen as less innocent, and needing less support, than white girls of the same age. This presumption led teachers and other authority figures to treat black girls as older than they actually are and more harshly than white female students, with the disparity being particularly wide for 10- to 14-year-olds. Our black and brown girls need our support, nurturing and role modeling for a better and healthier future.  Covid-19 and Gun violence has plagued our young girls of color to be parentified and pressured to take on an insurmountable weight of responsibility while neglecting their own self-care and mental and physical health. Triple Threat Mentoring aims to change this narrative and fill the service gaps by offering our mentoring services.

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Two-thirds of students at our neighborhood elementary and middle schools fail to meet both reading and math standards. Moreover, Roosevelt, the local high school, had only a 73% on-time graduation rate in 2017. The poverty rate in our neighborhood is also much higher than the city’s average and all our youth come from low-income families. The students in our program face a variety of other challenges as well—limited parental education, incarcerated family members, increased gun violence, Covid-19 poverty/health challenges, family immigration status, and learning and physical disabilities among them. We have extremely talented, gifted, intelligent girls that need support and a stirring up of their inner gifts and talents.

Our Founder

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Nike Greene, MA LMFT, was born in Portland, Oregon and founder of Triple Threat Mentoring. As a wife and mother of four, family is her primary value. She is a George Fox University graduate and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.  She is the Director of the Office of Violence Prevention for the City of Portland. All of Nike’s endeavors remain connected to her passion around collaborative communities, engaged families and celebrating diversity. As a therapist, she believes that healing and unity can build stronger communities. Moving beyond diversity into leveraging the power that lies within every individual in our community is key to a vibrant village. She is known for her vibrant personality, experiences within schools and correctional systems, community leadership and her stand for social justice and equity.

 

Everyone on our leadership team has lived in the Portland metro area for most of, if not all, their adult lives. We have a total of 6 team members. 

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Triple Threat Mission objectives:

 

Through our asset-based community of families, Coaches, volunteers, Mentors, and schools we help our girls overcome these challenges. We work with students, schools and families, in addition to providing consistent and ongoing individual support for students outside the school. We value a strong Coach/Tutor to student ratio to achieve our goals.

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Triple Threat Mentoring serves primarily Black and Brown girls and underserved girls and their families. We serve incredibly diverse and resilient girls in Middle School through 12th grade. 80% of our participants are girls of color.  Our families are resilient while simultaneously facing a variety of systematic challenges, including gang violence, low-performing schools, and a high poverty rate.

Triple Threat Program Pillars/Services

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Participants are encouraged to remain in our program from Middle school all the way through their first year post high school completion. Our program is community based which allows our services to be provided on school campuses, within participants neighborhoods and throughout the greater metro community.