Consulting
Guidance for programs, employers, and community organizations working with young men and with families navigating reentry — what actually keeps someone engaged, and what quietly pushes them away.
About MFGP · Our Team
Cedric Young
Director of Engagement for the Pathways to Prosperity Program. Cedric mentors young men, speaks from lived experience, and is available for consulting, speaking engagements, and workshops.
His relationship to MFGP
Cedric is Anyé Young's father, and part of the family whose story sits at the center of My Fairy GodParents. MFGP began with one family's experience of separation, connection, and rebuilding — and Cedric's voice is one of the three that experience is told through, alongside MFGP's Founder & Executive Director LaDàna Young and Youth Coordinator Anyé Young.
That family perspective became the backbone of MFGP's workshops and public education work. Where LaDàna speaks as a caregiver and Anyé as a young person, Cedric speaks to what it takes to come back, stay steady, and rebuild a relationship with your child — the part of the story audiences rarely get to hear firsthand.
Mentoring young men
Cedric's mentorship is built on plain talk rather than lectures. He works with young men who are being told, in a hundred small ways, that their future is already decided — and his starting point is that it is not.
- Honest conversation first: what is really going on, without the performance young men are used to putting on for adults.
- Accountability that comes with backup — naming a hard choice and then helping work the next step through.
- Employment and next-step planning: work, training, a trade, school, or a certificate, whichever fits the young man in front of him.
- Rebuilding relationships with family, including the fathers, mothers, and caregivers on both sides of a separation.
- The long message: staying out of the system is a series of ordinary decisions, and someone should be walking alongside you for them.
Director of Engagement, Pathways to Prosperity
Engagement is relationship work, and it is the difference between a program a young man attends once and a program he stays with.
In this role Cedric builds and holds the relationships that carry the Pathways to Prosperity Program — reaching young men where they already are, keeping in touch with the families behind them, and connecting participants to employers, trades, training, and mentors who can open a real door.
He also helps make sure the program is designed by people who have needed one. Cedric's input shapes how sessions are run, how participants are followed up with, and what "support" looks like once the workshop is over.
Book Cedric
Cedric is available for consulting, speaking engagements, and workshops with schools, reentry and youth programs, employers, conferences, and community organizations.
Speaking engagements
Keynotes and panels for schools, conferences, faith communities, and community events, grounded in lived experience and delivered directly to the young men in the room.
Workshops
Interactive sessions for youth groups, reentry programs, and family audiences — often alongside MFGP's Founder & Executive Director and Youth Coordinator so a full family perspective is represented.
Engagements are coordinated through My Fairy GodParents. Send your date, audience, and format through our contact form and MFGP will follow up with availability, scope, and fees.
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Support the young men in this work
Mentorship, workshops, and pathways to work are funded by community support. Give, sponsor, or reach out about partnering with MFGP.