Healing our children. Ensuring our nation.
National CARES Mentoring Movement exists to secure and transform the lives of the nation’s most vulnerable population—children living in poverty. Their lives are being shredded by many of the very institutions created to nourish all the children of our country. Our mentors and local CARES Affiliate Leaders are devoted to advancing our young who are isolated and mostly written off by society. We are writing them in!
NATIONAL CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT
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Love Life Legacy
Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Susan L. Taylor and
20 years of National CARES Mentoring Movement
MAR
02
2026
THE SUICIDE RATE AMONG OUR CHILDREN WAS 144%
OVER THE LAST 15 YEARS
But working together we can end this tragedy
The Impact of Our Work
Our trauma-healing, curriculum-based programming is brought to life by our Affiliate and program leaders, psychologists and volunteer mentors—who work in groups with young people in our initiatives as well as those of our partners.
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250,000
dedicated mentors
350,000+ young people served
58 Cities across
the country
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OUR PROGRAMS
Our dedicated Affiliate Leaders recruit, train and place mentors in our school-and-community- based initiatives led by CARES-trained psychologists and social workers.
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The Rising
In Wellness Mentoring Circles, young people are led through an exciting interactive curriculum by facilitators–who are psychologists and social workers–and community volunteer mentors.
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HBCU College Rising
The HBCU Rising aims to fill the pipeline of jobs which use STEM skills. The three-tiered mentoring program uses corporate volunteers in STEM-related professions to coach college students
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University For Parents
The University for Parents is a healing-centered, workforce readiness program for parents that is designed to assist parents in overcoming systemic and self-imposed barriers to self-sufficiency and sustainability. Read More
Mentoring
Our affiliate leaders across 58 U.S. cities effectively recruit and train adults to serve as mentors and deploy them to schools and youth-support organizations that are in need of Black volunteers to provide one to one mentoring.
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lifting, learning, loving and living!