Each paid, professional mentor, called a Friend, spends a minimum of 16 hours each month of one-on-one time with each of eight children. This model enables a child to form a trusting, caring, and sustained relationship with an adult that can truly change his or her life for the better.

Because our program is preventative, frequent, consistent, and sustained, we are able to catch children who fall through the cracks of other mentoring organizations:

• We intervene early
• We commit for the long-term
• We provide continuity in children's lives
• We employ professional mentors
• We are more than just a mentoring program

To read more about the Friends of the Children program, click to download the following pdf documents:

10 Essential Elements of the Friends of the Children Program

Theory of Change