Friends of the Children is a pioneering model for mentoring, based on the most promising research available.

Friends provides a professional, salaried mentor for youth from troubled homes, starting in kindergarten, and commits to them for 12 years, no matter what.

The Friends program has made a real and measurable difference for our communities’ most vulnerable youth for over 18 years.

Simply said, Friends of the Children works.

Friends of the Children is the proud recipient of grants from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Thrive Foundation for Youth, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Cindy and Duncan Campbell Foundation.