Greater Orlando CARES Mentoring Movement

National CARES Mentoring Movement is dedicated to recruiting and connecting mentors with local youth-serving and mentoring organizations to help guide struggling Black children to academic and social success, and to closing the huge gap between the relatively few Black mentors and millions of our vulnerable children. We know from research in educational psychology that it is important for students’ academic achievement that they build strong and lasting attachments with supportive and caring adults—their parents, mentors, tutors, coaches. However, the many effective youth-support programs offering one-to-one mentoring are reaching only a fraction of the children who need caring adults in their lives.